It his his duty to know the law, which means all of the laws from the smallest of local districts on the smallest world in the Furgoin Empire to all of the Empiric Laws and edicts. Legal Records is also responsible having the facts of laws of the other known species that the Furgoin Empire is likely to interact with. While, he has scores of people in his department in the Embassy alone, Lord Shimban prefers to keep up to date on these items as well.

Add the fact that he prefers the anachronistic hard-bound volumes over on-line data terminals, which he almost never uses, and people everybody is dumbfounded as to how he can keep all of that data straight in his head, since he doesn't bring anything but himself to any meeting.

1989 - Gail J. Butler