- OUR PARTNERSHIPS
Reach beyond
our footprint.
We keep the firm small on purpose. Partnerships are how our clients get the reach of a large one without losing the lawyer who knows their matter.
- HOW WE PARTNER
A wider bench,
the same relationship.
We built The Swafford Group to give clients the attention of a boutique firm without the ceiling that usually comes with one. Strategic partnerships are how we do it.
Rather than stretch into practices or jurisdictions we don’t know well, we work alongside firms whose judgment we trust and whose strengths sit next to our own. Every relationship on this page started the same way — with a matter that needed someone we’d want in the room.
For clients, the practical effect is simple: the same team leads the matter, and the right people are brought in when a question calls for them. No handoff, no starting over with a firm that doesn’t know your history.
One point of contact
Chosen, not assembled
Scoped in advance
- STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP
Cedar Law
Cedar Law is a boutique firm based in Washington, DC, serving clients across the DC Metro, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast. Its attorneys bring more than two decades of government and nonprofit experience to work spanning government and nonprofit counsel, housing and real estate, contracts and small business, and trusts and estates.
Our partnership brings the two practices together where they naturally meet. Nonprofits and mission-driven organizations we advise on governance, tax, and regulatory matters gain access to counsel embedded in the federal landscape. Clients facing matters that cross into Cedar’s jurisdictions get continuity instead of a handoff. And when a question runs past the legal — funding strategy, program structure, compliance reporting — Cedar Insights is already positioned to answer it.
For clients of both firms, the effect is a broader range of counsel, reached through the relationship you already have.
Cedar Law
based
Washington, DC
serving
DC, MD, VA, WV, NY, MA
focus
Government & nonprofits, housing & real estate, contracts & small business, trusts & estates
also
Non-legal consulting through Cedar Insights
- WHERE THE PRACTICES MEET
MATTER
THE SWAFFORD GROUP
CEDAR LAW
Nonprofits & associations
Formation, governance, transactions, and disputes
Government & regulatory
Private Client
Business & Contracts
- THE WIDER NETWORK
Beyond our
partner firms.
MEMBERSHIP
IR Global
An invitation-only network of vetted advisers across more than 150 jurisdictions. Our membership gives clients a direct route to counsel abroad who have already been screened by people we trust — not a cold referral.
RELATIONSHIPS
U.S. referral counsel
Firms and individual lawyers we’ve worked alongside on complex matters across the country, in practices from intellectual property to asset-based finance. Relationships built case by case, over decades.
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Rooted in Middle Tennessee with a presence in the capital and a network that extends worldwide.