Google Glass is a key technology in the Internet services giant’s plan to break data away from computers and portable devices, such as phones and tablets, and place information directly in front of users’ eyes. Comprising a camera, microphone, display, touch-pad, and battery, all integrated into spectacle frames, Google Glass aims to help users view and share information, conduct searches, record video, and take pictures on the go.

Months before the product’s release (likely in the first half of 2014), critics are already warning Google Glass will create an array of serious legal issues, particularly in privacy law. But this article isn’t about Google Glass’s possible influence on society or the law; it’s about the technology’s likely impact on lawyers.

When viewed only as a fresh productivity tool, Google Glass appears to have much potential. The technology promises to make lawyers more efficient and productive by allowing adopters to privately and unobtrusively take notes, call up important case data, video-record meetings, photograph evidence, view and edit schedules, check time, message colleagues, conduct on-demand Web searches and get turn-by-turn or step-by-step directions, among other uses.

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