John Nadolenco

Jan 6, 2025 | mondaq.com | Kelly Kramer |John Nadolenco

In 2014, John Nadolenco, a managing partner at Mayer Brown'sLos Angeles office, received a startling dispatch from Brazil. The letter, sent from Brazil's attorney general, detailed aninternational dispute then being litigated in a Los Angeles statecourt: the illegal smuggling of a massive emerald, excavated in2001 from Brazil's Bahia region, to the United States. At first, Nadolenco assumed the letter was a "totalhoax" in the vein of a "Nigerian prince" emailphishing scam.

Feb 23, 2023 | lexology.com | Archis A. Parasharami |John Nadolenco |Matthew D. Provance |Colin O. Lubelczyk

In what is becoming a pattern, the Illinois Supreme Court recently issued another decision interpreting the Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) to expand potential liability for businesses. The court held in Cothron v. White Castle that each time a business collects or discloses an individual’s biometric data without first obtaining BIPA-compliant consent, a separate claim accrues under BIPA.