As if on queue, three writ petitions flowed into two Indian High Courts, challenging the constitutional and statutory grounds of the exam.
Now if some of the petitions prove to be successful and the BCI were forced to push an amendment to the Advocates Act through parliament, a lot more parties than just those interested in education will like to have a say and try to get their clauses in while they can.
One serious danger is that this could kill the bar exam completely.
And although Moily almost imperceptibly softened his public stance on foreign law firms this week, legislating the Lawyers Collective v Ashurst judgement out of the Advocates Act remains unlikely although you never know.
More immediate results will be found elsewhere.
Link Legal has set up its long-planned Mumbai office and expanded with a partner in its Hyderabad office.
And Rodney Ryder start-up Scriboard has entered into a novel alliance with LPO Overlegen, planning not just to refer legal work but also to build legal technology platforms together. Could this be a better model than the raft of past years' law firm LPO start-ups, many of which have failed to make a real impact?
Mergermarket's April and May M&A data reveals that foreign firms have been bagging a large chunk of India-related deals amid a rise in outbound activity.
Four entirely domestic firms, however, took advantage of the $159m ownership change of low-cost airline SpiceJet.
If you want to see how winning Mooting Premier League teams are built, read our examination of the mooting DNA of Nalsar Hyderabad.
And while no winner has been declared yet, read our round-up of six months of the best legal writing and blogging on Legally India so far. The standards and insights gleaned have been incredible and picking just one winner to the blogging competition will be very, very tough.
This week also saw the release of the long-awaited draft Direct Tax Code, which promised to radically simplify the Indian tax system.
Best of blogs
In addition to our six-month round-up of the best blogs, a number of new talented bloggers entered the fray.- One of the most interesting posts this week were RK Mathur's musings of a (retired) judge, in a joyous free verse style with a great twist.
- nandiireywal, fully on form, with the important legal doctrine of volenti non fit injuria - or rather how waistlines inevitably blossom when you join a corporate law firm.
- danishsheikh with a very personal retrospective of 365 days without section 377.
- Recently joined blogger folly_nariman has made some marks with a brutally honest primer on exactly what the practice of corporate law entails and a powerful indictment of patriotism.
- DisplacedBong on how exactly most students slip into law. Pitch-perfect description.
- pig.on.wings justifying law as a career choice, obviously also pitched against the inevitable engineering challenge and that CLAT is a farce.
- one blogger shows how most start-up firms (and law schools) begin. Fun.
- Legalbeagle's entertaining ditty on a lawyer's labour of love. Was there a lawyer in the Canterbury Tales?
- LegallyLackadaisical proves law school is not so different from the musical Grease.
- Debkanya naskar's experience of fighting family intent on having a doctor daughter.
- Finally, False News With Balls reports on the case of the poor smelly litigator in black robes.
Comment of the week:
On law firm salaries: "It is for the associates to choose while they join and not to crib endlessly about their "poor" pay or say that foreign firms, when they come in, will pay better. Law firms have to endlessly struggle to keep up to the competition and to source work - every bit of it requires continued sincerity and endeavour of the management. Hope the associates appreciate such position while expressing their views on existing pay structures."To get future newsletters straight to your inbox every Friday for free, please enter your name and email below.