Nelson Mullins sponsored a continuing legal education (CLE) event in August 2022 for the Association of Corporate Council’s Georgia Chapter at the Atlanta Braves’ Truist Park discussing the early legal landscape around the metaverse. The event was held in conjunction with the Braves organization, who is currently exploring metaverse opportunities.

According to the team’s vice president for marketing and innovation, the organization started thinking seriously about the metaverse when the COVID-19 pandemic first shut down baseball – and the rest of the global economy – just before the start of the 2020 season. The organization later unveiled its virtual twin of Truist Park, created virtually and mirroring the actual stadium.

Jason Epstein, partner and co-head of the firm’s technology and procurement industry group, led the CLE by encouraging those who want to understand the metaverse to spend time in it.

“You have to participate,” he said.

Firm attorneys Kevin Tran and Mallory Acheson joined Epstein in discussing recent decisions that are beginning to set boundaries for the metaverse, despite some matters still being controlled by outdated case law.