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The law playing catch-up with fast-moving technology and failing is almost a cliché.

In many countries it is similarly common for law makers to try and finish the arms race with laws that leapfrog technology as well as common sense and constitutions.

This week's activity in the law firm market showcased exactly why India's oldest National Law School is still number one.

Everyone loves cake, particularly lawyers who really like cakes that just keep growing. Unfortunately cakes do not do so without hard work so this week many have been busy baking.

CLAT madness descended on Legally India kicking off perhaps the largest and most sustained virtual law student brawl in the history of India. But first, cast an eye over the excitement that lawyers get up to when they grow up.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) made its first very cautious splashes out of the shallows.

The lawyers of five-years-from-now by most accounts had a harrowing weekend.

Making friends is important and the Competition Commission of India (CCI) seems keen to.

This week we looked at some of those lawyers who took the road that is often rocky but also sometimes incredibly scenic.

The best friendship bandwagon has not yet crashed and burned but it is clearly smouldering.

There is little doubt that one firm still rules the capital markets roost. However, others are starting to worry its lead in the practice area, as evidenced by Legally India’s exclusive analysis this week.

Say what you will but the start of NLSIU Bangalore’s recruitment season is still a watershed moment. It indicates future growth sentiments of firms, levels of domestic and foreign competition and the recruitment committee’s skill at dealing with delicate law firms where being first to hire is for many a mark of pride.

Partners were concluding the counting of money this week only interrupted on Wednesday by the India-Pakistan game (wisely a half-day at many firms). But with the new year, slates clear, bonuses paid and promotions gained (and missed), the recent lull in lateral movements and legal entrepreneurship is likely to pick up again.

Most advocates in the country’s courts were on strike or protesting yesterday. Ostensibly the targets were the Legal Services Bill and the service tax. But one Twitter user did reasonably wonder whether the timing was not more than a convenient a coincidence, coinciding as it did with India’s nail-biting triumph against Australia in the Cricket World Cup.

Lawyers have bedded down a fair few deals and strategic advances ahead of the Holi weekend and financial year-end.

International Women’s Day is a nice occasion for the media to give itself a collective pat on the back and write how great things are but there is no other way to put this one: things are rotten at the Bar.

Either the Indian Government is short of cash, is in full GST mode or it just does not like lawyers very much.