In an age-old tradition, Amarchand Mangaldas co-managing partner Shardul Shroff has sent all Delhi office female associates boxes of chocolates this week.

Today, on this public holiday and ahead of Valentine's Day, Legally India turns up empty handed but for this brief collection of the latest news from the land of law.

The Delhi Bar Council has been making a virtue of greater accountability, cancelling its internal election for the executive board after a group of members alleged illegalities and irregularities in the process.

Meanwhile Link Legal has made up a new partner, a new Chennai litigation boutique has sprung up out of Surana & Surana, FoxMandal has taken on political reinforcements in London as it parted with another political ally, and ALMT has gone for a major landgrab in South Mumbai's Express Towers to prepare for new arrivals.

In law school land, Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) is hailed by some as a revolution of Indian legal education while others condemn it as an institution for just the privileged. Nevertheless, JGLS continues undeterred and has launched its LLM programme a year early.

In Legally India's Mooting Premier League, Symbiosis Pune has entered the top 10 as Washington trounced top Indian schools at GNLU's moot.

And to those yet to experience the joys and pains of the profession, send them our guide on how to ace the 2010 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT). If you're feeling nostalgic for that harrowing test of legalhood, read our retrospective on previous CLAT experiences.

Bloggers this week: An eloquent editorial as the Times of India should have run it, arguing for the legalisation of prostitution; the website of the venerable Kolkata High Court needs an overhaul and how do you file an RTI request there?; and an "unambitious" poem about World Trade Law.

Finally, two more new Legally Drawn cartoons.

Happy Valentine's weekend!