Strategic legal counsel for organizations shaping policy, protecting communities, and advancing the public good.
At Tierney Lawrence Stiles LLC, we specialize in helping mission-driven organizations navigate complex legal landscapes with clarity, confidence, and strategic foresight. Our boutique law firm is trusted by nonprofits, political organizations, advocacy coalitions, and governmental clients who require deep legal insight and a nuanced understanding of highly regulated spaces.
We provide tailored legal services in nonprofit and tax-exempt organization law, campaign finance and election compliance, federal and state grants, business transactions, employment law, and public policy. Our clients rely on us not just for legal answers—but for legal strategy. Whether advising on governance, compliance, ethics, or long-term organizational structure, we serve as true legal partners to those creating change.
Our firm is structured to deliver high-level expertise with the efficiency and responsiveness of a lean, collaborative team. We take pride in offering smart, principled counsel grounded in integrity, experience, and a deep respect for the work our clients do.
Our Team
Experienced. Focused.
Invested In Your Mission.
Our attorneys bring decades of collective experience across public interest law, political advocacy, nonprofit governance, and environmental policy. Each member of our team is driven by a shared commitment to legal excellence and to supporting the individuals and organizations working toward a more equitable, sustainable future.
Martha Tierney
Martha practices in the areas of government relations, election law, employment law and litigation.
Cara B. Lawrence
Cara represents nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations in all aspects of their operation and management.
Dan Stiles
Dan serves as outside general counsel to organizations dedicated to creating positive human impact. His practice focuses on nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations, business transactions, and campaign and election law. Dan combines deep legal expertise with strategic insight to help clients achieve their goals efficiently.
Natalie Negrelli
Natalie is an associate at Tierney Lawrence Stiles LLC, where she advises nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations on a broad range of legal matters, including entity formation, tax-exempt status and compliance, corporate governance, federal and state grant compliance, and lobbying, political activity, and advocacy issues.
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
In Memoriam: Ed Ramey
For over four decades, Ed represented Colorado businesses, government agencies, individuals, and public interest groups in state, federal, and administrative trials and appeals. His practice ranged from civil rights litigation to environmental protection and conservation issues, academic freedom and education law, governmental processes, election and campaign finance law, animal protection, disability and employment discrimination matters, and prison law.
Ed was widely recognized for his work in constitutional and public interest litigation. He regularly represented and worked with private (often disadvantaged) individuals, as well as businesses and trade groups, state and local governmental bodies and agencies, public officials, teachers and university faculty, political organizations and candidates, community groups, and a wide variety of nonprofit education and advocacy organizations.
Ed will be remembered for his dedication to his clients and to justice, his kindness, and his immense generosity, and he is greatly missed.
For more on Ed’s legacy, please read this article from the Colorado Sun.