Morning Docket: 02.11.15

* Today's inspirational human being: An ordained minister in Alabama was arrested after offering to perform a same-sex marriage inside a probate judge's office. She says she'll do it again, even though she knows she'll likely be rearrested for doing so. [USA Today] * Meanwhile, Judge Callie V.S. Granade will hear arguments on whether she must order Alabama judges to issue marriage license to gay couples. Granade is the one who ruled the state's ban was unconstitutional in the first place. [New York Times] * Per Major Lindsey & Africa's 2014 Partner Compensation Survey, women partners have finally beaten men when it comes to law firm compensation. Wait, no, that's not true, it's just an "anomaly," and "[t]hese women might be outliers." [The Careerist] * Blank Rome's ex-chairman donated $5M to Villanova Law to establish an ethics and compliance center. You're a few years too late, pal. The school could've used an ethics and compliance center to avert its admissions scandal. [Philadelphia Inquirer] * "The legal profession can benefit from more diversity. Should those students only attend low-ranked law schools? Absolutely not." As we mentioned previously, law school diversity has improved, but only at the bottom. [National Law Journal]

* Today’s inspirational human being: An ordained minister in Alabama was arrested after offering to perform a same-sex marriage inside a probate judge’s office. She says she’ll do it again, even though she knows she’ll likely be rearrested for doing so. [USA Today]

* Meanwhile, Judge Callie V.S. Granade will hear arguments on whether she must order Alabama judges to issue marriage license to gay couples. Granade is the one who ruled the state’s ban was unconstitutional in the first place. [New York Times]

* Per Major Lindsey & Africa’s 2014 Partner Compensation Survey, women partners have finally beaten men when it comes to law firm compensation. Wait, no, that’s not true, it’s just an “anomaly,” and “[t]hese women might be outliers.” [The Careerist]

* Blank Rome’s ex-chairman donated $5M to Villanova Law to establish an ethics and compliance center. You’re a few years too late, pal. The school could’ve used an ethics and compliance center to avert its admissions scandal. [Philadelphia Inquirer]

* “The legal profession can benefit from more diversity. Should those students only attend low-ranked law schools? Absolutely not.” As we mentioned previously, law school diversity has improved, but only at the bottom. [National Law Journal]

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