Robert Hofer, Senior Consultant, Discovery Services

Background

Robert brings nearly 20 years of industry expertise to his role as a Senior Consultant at iDS, where he has been instrumental since 2022. At iDS, Robert utilizes his extensive background to streamline complex legal cases and offer strategic guidance to attorneys, ensuring efficiency and precision in every phase of the process.

With a career that spans both large enterprises and agile startups, Robert’s experience offers a broad perspective on digital forensics and eDiscovery. His strong foundation in Mathematics from Portland State University and certification as a Relativity Certified Administrator reinforce his in-depth knowledge of the field.

Robert thrives in iDS’s environment of continuous innovation and development, dedicated to advancing beyond traditional methods. His commitment to refining and enhancing processes exemplifies iDS’s role as experts at augmenting experts, ensuring that clients receive exceptional results.

Outside of work, Robert is a passionate baseball fan on a mission to visit all 30 major league stadiums. This passion for exploration reflects his approach at iDS—constantly seeking new challenges and striving for excellence in every endeavor.

What is at stake

The earlier you understand the evidence, the better the decisions that follow.

The evidence is abundant. But volume is not access. Access is not understanding. And understanding is not an expert opinion.

Increasingly, evidence is buried across devices, applications, databases, cloud systems, transactions, and other complex sources. It must be found, preserved, made accessible, understood, and interpreted in the context of the matter. And when expert testimony is required, that understanding must support an independent, defensible opinion.

When important evidence surfaces late, assumptions may already have become strategy. When it is identified, tested, and understood early, your team can build its strategy around what can actually be shown. This isn’t just for trial. It is also for TROs, letters rogatory, discovery requests, subpoenas, depositions, summary judgment, mediation, and arbitration.

You bring the legal expertise. We bring the evidence expertise.

iDS combines technical, analytical, and subject-matter expertise to help you move from evidence to understanding, and, when necessary, from understanding to opinion and testimony.

You know the law. We help you know the evidence.