You have an urgent e-Disclosure requirement NOW. How do you get started NOW?

Although I have long had an interest in disclosure and specifically in electronic disclosure, the sense that there was a mission and a message to promote dates from the IQPC conference in London in May 2007. It was the first big conference I had attended, and was the first time I met Senior Master Whitaker and heard him speak. The other speaker who caught my attention at that conference was Mark Surguy of Pinsent Masons. His message was not addressed to those accustomed to e-Disclosure but to lawyers who might find themselves suddenly involved in a case which required skills and knowledge about handling electronic documents for which their experience had not equipped them. His message was that everyone should know what they would do if an urgent e-Disclosure problem arose tomorrow. Lawyers ought, he said, to know who they would call whom they could trust, and what the terms of engagement would be. His suggestion was that every firm should identify at least two providers of software and services and should have reached a framework agreement with them on matters including price and the  divisions of responsibility and liability.