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The Wearable Revolution: How Glasses, Pendants, and Always-On AI Are Poised to Transform Legal Practice

ABA Law Practice Magazine · March/April 2026

The Wearable Revolution: How Glasses, Pendants, and Always-On AI Are Poised to Transform Legal Practice

By Sean A. Harrington

ABA Law Practice Magazine article on how always-on AI and wearable interfaces can reshape legal workflows, client intake, and professional responsibility boundaries.

ABA Law Practice MagazineMarch/April 2026

Summary

This article looks past chatbot-in-a-browser use and argues that the next practical shift for lawyers may come from ambient interfaces such as smart glasses, pendants, earbuds, and other always-available devices.

It focuses on the legal-specific questions that follow from that shift, including confidentiality, recording, supervision, accuracy, and whether these tools actually reduce friction in intake, drafting, time capture, and client service.

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