What if the biggest legal revolution of our lifetime is happening right now and most lawyers don’t even see it?

This week’s Legally Speaking Podcast ™️ episode might be one of the most important conversations I have ever had!

I sat down with Jacqueline Watts - emerging technologies lawyer, one of the UK’s leading voices, to explore how immersive worlds, AI, Web3 and virtual environments are already reshaping the expectations placed on lawyers.

If you want to stay relevant in the years ahead, this episode is a must.

Why this conversation matters:

🔴 Lawyers are already advising clients whose entire business exists inside virtual worlds.
🔴 Platforms such as Roblox and Decentraland are creating legal questions with no precedent.
🔴 Digital twins, AI, immersive tech and Web3 are converging faster than regulation can keep up.
🔴 The metaverse isn’t “dead.” It is rebranding into immersive tech, spatial computing and virtual worlds with early foundations of interoperability.
🔴 Real world legal issues still exist in these spaces. They are simply more complex. Divorce, inheritance, fraud, IP and consumer rights are all evolving at speed.
🔴 With regulation still catching up, contracts are becoming the primary way to protect clients.
🔴 Virtual assets are already appearing in disputes, deals and estate planning. Lawyers need to understand how to classify them and how they transfer.
🔴 Founders building AI and Web3 products do not fit into traditional procurement frameworks. Lawyers must adapt the way they support these businesses.

Why Jacqueline brings serious credibility:

She combines deep legal experience with a forward thinking understanding of technology and the realities of emerging digital environments.

She is a solicitor with more than twelve years in corporate and emerging tech work.
She is Head of Corporate Commercial Law at Allin1 Advisory.
She is the author of Law in the Metaverse and Navigating the Industrial Metaverse.
She is Vice Chair of the IEEE Spatial Computing for Metaverse Initiative.
She sits on Innovate UK’s Immersive Tech Ethics Group.
She advises startups, scaleups and multinationals working across AI, VR, robotics, blockchain and decentralised platforms.
She works on these issues every day and it shows.

Two quotes that really stood out:

“We are pioneering a new frontier and drawing the lines of how justice should operate in virtual worlds.”

“People will still turn to real life courts because centuries of safety sit behind them but lawyers must understand the world their clients now live in.”

A final question to think about:

If someone can trade, build assets, suffer harm or form meaningful relationships inside a virtual world, who decides the rules? Courts? Regulators? Tech platforms? Or something completely new?

This episode will give you a clear view of what is coming next for the legal profession.

🎧 Listen now on the Legally Speaking Podcast, sponsored by Clio!