MOST PEOPLE would not be inclined to compare lawyers to dolphins. Another dorsal-finned denizen of the deep typically gets that honor.

But Steven C. Krane, the president of the New York State Bar Association, says that in the case of the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the comparison is apt. He says lawyers are like “happy dolphins swimming along in the ocean and getting caught in a tuna net.”