Antti Innanen regularly meets with clients from around the world in his office, which overlooks snow-capped mountain ranges and has a huge wrap-around balcony. It is, however, a virtual space. “It’s nicer than our actual office in Helsinki,” jokes the CEO of Dot, a Finnish legal design consultancy.

His business is one of several law firms and legal tech companies setting up offices in the metaverse, an immersive virtual world where workers are represented by 3D avatars and is considered by many to be the next generation of the internet.

The legal industry is notoriously conservative, but some forward-thinking lawyers are trying out metaverses like Decentraland or The Sandbox, which allow users to log in, run businesses, buy packages of…