Article: Document demolition experts clean up. (Jordan, Lawrence & Associates)

Jordan, Lawrence & Associates is trying to change the banking industry's pack-rat ways.

Banks generally box up the reams of records generated by day-to-day business and shove them on a shelf in a crowded warehouse.

"Banks save everything," said Brad Jordan.

"Ten copies of everything," corrected his partner, Alice Lawrence.

The two own Jordan, Lawrence, the nation's only consulting firm

dedicated to figuring out when banks may discard records without running afoul of government regulators.

Records compliance sounds like a cinch, but Jordan, Lawrence is proving it's not.

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