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Illinois has the strictest biometric privacy law in the country with the Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”). The BIPA requires employers who collect employees’ biometric data to follow a number of protocols. These protocols include (1) maintaining a written policy about the collection and storage of employee biometric data, (2) providing employees with written notice of that policy, and (3) obtaining informed consent from employees to collect biometric data...

Nearly 106,000 Americans are currently on waiting lists for donor organs and 17 die each day while waiting. The holy grail for rising to meet this demand and end this suffering will be the ability to “print” the organs, muscles, and tissues from individually grown cells, lowering the need for human donors and the complicated and sometimes unbearable stress that goes along with donor wait lines. There have been recent advancements in the field that have produced several different skin, bone, muscle and vascular structures, and even whole non-human organs, such as a functional porcine pancreas and a rabbit-sized heart...

Winston-Salem, N.C. — Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that three attorneys were recognized on the North Carolina Super Lawyers “Rising Stars” list for 2023. Lee D. Denton is a senior attorney. His primary area of practice is litigation, with an emphasis on complex business disputes, complex construction cases, consumer finance and banking litigation, appeals, and fiduciary disputes. He earned his undergraduate degree from Appalachian State University and his law degree from Wake Forest University. Carrie H. Grundmann is a partner at Spilman...

Charleston, W.Va. — Spilman Thomas & Battle (Spilman) announced that Erin Jones Adams, Tai Shadrick Kluemper, and James E. Simon were elected as Members of the law firm effective January 1, 2023. Jones Adams rejoined Spilman in late 2021 after a multi-year engagement supporting executive administration and compliance initiatives at a liberal arts college. Her primary areas of practice now include employment law, corporate law, and education law. She draws on her diverse background to provide practical and tailored solutions for clients...