Forensic Discovery is a trusted digital forensics and eDiscovery company headquartered in Denver, serving clients across the country with local support for the San Francisco, California region. We help law firms, businesses, and individuals quickly preserve, analyze, and present digital evidence with defensible methods and clear reporting. Whether your matter involves a single device or enterprise data sources, our experienced team provides practical solutions and expert guidance from intake to testimony.
We investigate computers, servers, cloud accounts, and enterprise data sources to surface the facts and answer the “who, what, when, where, and how.” Our methods preserve metadata integrity, maintain defensibility, and deliver actionable findings in a format your team can use.
Benefit: Our work helps you determine what happened, when it happened, and who was involved—supporting strategy, settlement, or trial with reliable evidence and expert interpretation.
Mobile evidence can make or break a case. We collect and analyze iOS and Android devices, messaging apps, and cloud backups using forensically sound processes.
Benefit: We surface relevant communications and timelines, correlate data across devices, and deliver exports that are easy for counsel and fact-finders to review.
Our team supports attorneys and corporate counsel throughout the lifecycle of a matter—from early case assessment through testimony.
Benefit: We translate technical findings into clear, credible evidence and testimony that judges and juries can understand.
We pair forensic-grade preservation with a right-sized discovery workflow, giving you control, transparency, and defensibility.
Benefit: You get a defensible, efficient discovery process that fits your budget and timeline, with clear visibility at each step.
Every engagement follows a repeatable, defensible process designed to protect evidence integrity and accelerate results:
We document the chain of custody at each phase to preserve evidentiary integrity and support admissibility.
Beyond core digital forensics and eDiscovery, we support specialized needs for clients across San Francisco, California and the broader Bay Area. The following section highlights local capabilities and how they benefit law firms, businesses, and individuals.
Why it matters: A seasoned computer forensics investigator can quickly isolate key facts, reduce data volumes, and present findings that clarify timelines and responsibility—helping you make informed decisions faster.
Benefit: We extract and organize communications so counsel can quickly understand conversations, context, and chronology—crucial in employment disputes, fraud matters, and internal investigations across the San Francisco metro.
Why choose us in San Francisco: Whether you searched for a digital forensics company near me or need to hire a digital forensics expert who can operate locally, we offer remote collections for convenience and cost savings—and on-site support across San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Berkeley, and surrounding communities when needed. Our disciplined approach helps ensure evidence is admissible and persuasive.
Call to Action: Contact our San Francisco office today to speak with a computer forensics expert witness or to schedule a consultation with a digital forensic investigator near you.
We provide remote and on-site support across San Francisco, California and the Bay Area, including Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, Walnut Creek, Concord, San Mateo, Redwood City, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose, and Marin County communities.
Yes. Remote collections are often the fastest, most cost-effective option, and they eliminate on-site fees. When circumstances require, we also perform on-site collections across the San Francisco Bay Area while maintaining the same defensible methods and chain-of-custody documentation.
We document each step—from identification and authorization through imaging, hashing, transport, analysis, and reporting. Evidence is handled with unique identifiers and verifiable checksums so you can demonstrate integrity and authenticity in court.
In many cases, yes. Feasibility depends on device type, OS version, encryption, app behavior, and how long ago data was deleted. We assess each device and proceed with methods designed to maximize recovery while maintaining forensic soundness.
We work with established hosted review options such as Logikcull, Relativity, and Reveal. We tailor the platform and workflow to the size of the matter, budget, and team preferences.
Yes. Our experts provide affidavits, declarations, and testimony for matters venued in San Francisco, the greater Bay Area, and beyond. We focus on clear explanations that connect technical findings to case issues.
We can typically engage promptly after an initial consultation and conflict check. For urgent matters, we prioritize scoping and preservation to minimize risk of spoliation and keep your timeline on track.
No problem. We support clients nationwide and can coordinate remote or on-site collections for custodians located in the San Francisco metro, ensuring consistent process and reporting across all locations.
Ready to move forward? Hire a digital forensics expert near you in San Francisco. Schedule a consultation to discuss scope, timelines, and the most efficient path to preserve and analyze your evidence.
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Forensic Discovery is a highly rated digital forensics and eDiscovery provider, featuring a five-star customer rating on Google. Our team of digital forensic experts is known throughout San Francisco for their professionalism, quality, responsiveness, and the value they provide to their clients. From computer forensics to eDiscovery to mobile phone forensics, our team is able to collect data from most any source. After the collection of the data, the San Francisco team takes the time to work with the client to understand the data and perform an expert analysis of the data. Relevant evidence can then be placed into our online document review platform making it easy for you to access the important information. Additionally, we offer local Expert Witnesses in San Francisco who are ready to assist in depositions and/or trials.
— Dean Herms
— Justin Plaskov
— Elizabeth Staley
To schedule a free computer forensics consultation for your law firm or business, contact Forensic Discovery online or call us at 877-764-0920. Our certified computer forensics experts have helped thousands of clients throughout the country retrieve and preserve digital evidence from our offices in Arizona, California, Colorado, and Texas.
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