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20 apps to help provide easier access to legal help BY JOE DYSART APRIL 1, 2015, 6:01 AM CDT Reference:  http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/20_apps_providing_easier_access_to_legal_help Image from  Shutterstock . Just as the smartphone brought computing to the cyberchallenged, it is putting justice into the hands of some who may need it most. Apps for immigrants, the indigent, those who face arrest and the lawyers who help them have been popping up with increasing frequency. And many of those closest to the technology believe the momentum behind the developments is just starting to build. “People talk a lot about digital technologies revolutionizing legal practice,” says Tanina Rostain, a law professor at Georgetown Law Center who teaches a course on the potential of Internet-based technologies for legal practice and pedagogy. “This is the area where the revolution is happening.” Not surprisingly, among the earliest promulgators of justice apps ar...

Risk Management Framework for Information Systems and Organizations A System Life Cycle Approach for Security and Privacy by  U.S. Department of Commerce Wilbur L. Ross, Jr., Secretary National Institute of Standards and Technology Walter Copan, NIST Director and Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology INTRODUCTION  THE NEED TO MANAGE SECURITY AND PRIVACY RISK  Organizations depend on information systems to carry out their missions and business functions. The success of the missions and business functions depends on protecting the confidentiality, integrity, availability of information processed, stored, and transmitted by those systems and the privacy of individuals. The threats to information systems include equipment failure, environmental disruptions, human or machine errors, and purposeful attacks that are often sophisticated, disciplined, well-organized, and well-funded. When successful, attacks on information systems can result in seriou...

Claim under s.70 of Contract Act when parties have a binding contract Supreme Court has held that claim under Section 70 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 cannot be raised when parties have entered into a binding contract. Brief Facts: The impugned contract was a purchase order amongst Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (“MTNL”) and Tata Communication Limited (“TCL”). The purchase order restricted liquidated damages to 12% of the purchase value in case of a breach. TCL did not fulfil its obligations under the purchase order and as a result MTNL suffered losses. Subsequently, MTNL deducted certain amounts of money from the invoices raised by TCL. TCL initiated a suit against MTNL in the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellant Tribunal (“TDSAT”), arguing that the monetary amounts subtracted by MTNL were not in consonance with the monetalry amounts mentioned in the impugned purchase orders. MTNL argued stating that such sums are due under ‘ quantum meruit’ ( compensation ‘ quant...