India Unleashed
The Bar Council of India (BCI), hot on the heels of having announced the banning of Indian one-year LLM programmes and a greater focus on continuing legal education (CLE), has announced that through the BCI Trust it would start an Indian Institute of Law (IIL) in Odisha’s Bhubaneswar, under an MOU with with the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT).
The 2020 National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) that ranks law schools has been postponed, as reported by the Hindustan Times.
Scoop: He joins the mortgage giant as its legal head 
Two former Indian Angel Network (IAN) lawyers, Ankita Singh and Ajay Anand, and ex-Phoenix Legal senior associate Shikha Bhardwaj have set up a new law firm as co-founding partners to focus on giving start-up founders good legal advice, hoping to grow with the companies.