Tierney Lawrence Stiles LLC

What Tierney Lawrence Stiles LLC does

Tierney Lawrence Stiles LLC is a boutique law firm founded in 2016 and headquartered in Colorado, with offices in Denver (225 E 16th Avenue, Suite 350) and Boulder (1919 14th St #700). The firm provides specialized legal counsel across six practice areas: Campaigns, Elections & Political Law; Nonprofit & Tax-Exempt Organizations; Public Interest & Advocacy Law; Business Transactions; Federal and State Grants; and Employment Law. Its attorneys serve as outside general counsel to public charities, private foundations, community foundations, political organizations, candidates, PACs, issue committees, government entities, and mission-driven businesses operating in Colorado and across the United States.

The firm operates on a professional-services revenue model with quote-based pricing tied to matter complexity and multi-year engagement cadence. Client acquisition is sales-led, running on direct outreach through tls.legal, attorney email, and referrals drawn from the partners' institutional affiliations (Common Cause National Governing Board, ICLEI-USA board, Colorado Lawyers Committee, Colorado Democratic Party). There is no proprietary technology platform, software product, or AI/ML capability associated with the firm's offering; deliverable value is attorney expertise and counsel.

The team consists of three named partners (Martha Tierney, Cara B. Lawrence, Dan Stiles), one associate (Natalie Negrelli), and one additional attorney (Ed Ramey). Differentiated positioning rests on decades of collective experience in highly regulated public-interest, election-law, and nonprofit tax-exempt spaces, reinforced by sustained Best Lawyers in America, Colorado Super Lawyers, and 5280 Magazine Top Lawyers recognition. The firm is privately held as an LLC with no external institutional ownership, no disclosed financials, no subsidiaries, and no recorded funding, M&A, or partnership activity.

Name

Tierney Lawrence Stiles LLC

Legal name

Tierney Lawrence Stiles LLC

Website

https://tls.legal

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Tierney Lawrence Stiles LLC is a Colorado-based boutique law firm founded in 2016 that provides specialized legal counsel in election law, nonprofit tax-exempt organizations, federal/state grants compliance, and business transactions to nonprofits, political organizations, government entities, and mission-driven businesses across the United States.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Services (Nonprofit & Political Law)

NAICS

Offices of Lawyers (54111), Offices of Lawyers (541110), Legal Services (5411)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Litigation & Dispute Resolution (BPAHAAAB)

Keywords

• Nonprofit legal counsel
• Election law services
• Campaign finance law
• Tax-exempt organizations
• Public interest law

Headquarters

HQ city

Denver

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Legal Services Revenue: The firm generates revenue through providing specialized legal counsel to nonprofits, political organizations, government entities, and mission-driven businesses. Services include consultation, representation, compliance advisory, transaction support, and litigation. Revenue is earned through professional services fees.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Tierney Lawrence Stiles LLC is a boutique law firm providing specialized legal counsel to nonprofits, political organizations, government entities, and mission-driven businesses. The firm's practice areas include Campaigns & Elections Law, Nonprofit & Tax-Exempt Organizations Law, Public Interest & Advocacy Law, Business Transactions, Federal and State Grants Counsel, and Employment Law, with services covering compliance advisory, representation, transaction support, and litigation.

Product overview

Tierney Lawrence Stiles LLC is a boutique law firm founded in 2016 that provides specialized legal services rather than a software product or platform. The firm offers a unified set of legal practice areas as professional services, including Campaigns & Elections Law, Nonprofit & Tax-Exempt Organizations Law, Public Interest & Advocacy Law, Business Transactions, Federal and State Grants Counsel, and Employment Law. These practice areas function as integrated service offerings under one firm, where attorneys provide tailored legal counsel to nonprofits, political organizations, governments, and mission-driven businesses advancing the public good.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Campaigns, Elections & Political Law Legal counsel for political parties, candidates, political committees, issue committees, and independent expenditure committees on election law and campaign finance matters, including campaign finance and reporting compliance, ballot initiatives, redistricting, voter rights, lobbyist regulation, ethics oversight, and related litigation.
• Nonprofit & Tax-Exempt Organizations Law Outside general counsel for public charities, private foundations, corporate and community foundations, political organizations, and other tax-exempt entities on entity selection and formation, tax-exempt status applications, corporate governance and board counsel, program delivery and operational compliance, complex tax issues, lobbying and advocacy compliance, and fractional general counsel services.
• Public Interest & Advocacy Law Legal support for community-based initiatives, policy development and regulatory compliance, and advising social impact organizations and coalitions on public interest and advocacy matters.
• Business Transactions Legal counsel for mission-driven businesses on entity selection and formation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, shareholder, partnership, and LLC operating agreements, contract negotiation, drafting and review, and business dispute resolution and dissolutions.
• Federal and State Grants Counsel Legal counsel on application and regulatory compliance for federal and state grants, subawards, procurements, affiliations and other transactions, audits and audit resolution, agency reviews, and cost allowability and allocation across multiple grants, including Environmental Protection Agency programs.
• Employment Law Legal counsel on employment applications, policies and agreements, executive compensation issues, confidentiality, non-solicitation, non-competition, and trade secrets protection agreements and litigation, reductions in force and severance agreements, discrimination complaints, unemployment and workers' compensation compliance, and internal investigations.

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Beveridge & Diamond PC: Boutique environmental and nonprofit law firm with offices nationwide. Comparable boutique structure with niche specialization relevant to TLS's environmental nonprofit and public interest clients.
• Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville PC: Boutique law firm in Washington, D.C. specializing in nonprofit health care, disability, and social enterprise organizations. Comparable boutique scale with deep specialization in nonprofit legal services, similar delivery model.
• Caplin & Drysdale: Established Washington, D.C. boutique with deep, decades-long expertise in tax-exempt organizations, private foundations, and political organizations. Directly comparable niche specialization in nonprofit tax law, though larger and more established than TLS.
• Miller & Chevalier Chartered: Washington, D.C.-based tax boutique with a strong tax-exempt organizations practice. Comparable specialty focus and boutique delivery model, though serving larger institutional clients and operating with a deeper attorney bench.
• Elias Law Group LLP: Washington, D.C.-based boutique law firm founded by Marc Elias, specializing in election law, voting rights, campaign finance, and progressive nonprofit and political organization law. Highly comparable to TLS's core election law and political organizations practice, though operating at larger scale.
• Feldesman Leifer + Carney LLP: Washington, D.C.-based boutique law firm specializing in nonprofit organizations, associations, and tax-exempt entities. Highly comparable size and niche focus to TLS, with overlapping practice areas in nonprofit governance and tax-exempt compliance.

Broad incumbents

• Holland & Knight LLP: Large national law firm with established public policy, election law, and nonprofit organizations practices. Overlaps with TLS's federal and state grants, government, and nonprofit work but as part of a much larger full-service firm.
• Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP: Major law firm with strong government, election law, and nonprofit practices. Comparable expertise in regulatory and political law matters, but operating at much larger scale with broader service offerings.
• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP: Large international law firm with a prominent political law practice serving candidates, campaigns, PACs, and advocacy organizations. Competes with TLS for political law and election work but within a substantially broader full-service firm offering.
• Steptoe & Johnson LLP: Major international law firm with a strong election law, government affairs, and political law practice. Provides comparable services to TLS but as part of a much broader practice portfolio and with significantly larger resources.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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