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One of the joys of being a lawyer is being able to collect cartoons, plaques, and humorous stories that are aimed to pierce the stuffiness and cynicism of the legal profession. They can be very accurate at times. In a corner of my desk resides what I consider to be a particularly accurate jibe: the cartoon character Garfield wearing a blue suit coat and vest and tie, holding a briefcase in one paw and the other raised above his head with a stance reminiscent of John Travolta in "Saturday Night Fever"--with the caption "litigate, litigate--dance to the music."

The cartoonist, whether he knew it or not, struck at the heart of a problem that pervades the realm of a records manager. …