As companies consider how to take their business and services into the Metaverse, legal professionals are, too, pondering how legal concepts will apply in the newest virtual space.

Whether it be tax, privacy or trademark laws, attorneys are already paying close attention to metaverse developments to advise companies on the next best step. While companies and legal professionals alike will likely have to wait to see how traditional legal concepts will apply to the Metaverse, most expect jurisdictional boundaries that lawyers navigate in the “real” world to translate over the Metaverse—just as they did in the advent of the internet or social media.