Attorney Tara M. Swartz

Attorney Tara M. Swartz founded Swartz Law in Boston, Massachusetts in 2011 after practicing in the Boston area for a decade. She opened her second office in the Kansas City Metro area in 2016 after her family moved back to the city where she grew up. Attorney Swartz uses her skills honed over the past more than 20 years to assist employees and small businesses with workplace issues and in matters relating to business formation and compliance.

Attorney Swartz is client focused and results driven. She understands that the cost of legal services is an important consideration in any legal matter and in choosing an attorney. She uses her experience, knowledge and advocacy to successfully avoid or resolve legal claims in a cost-effective manner. Attorney Swartz knows how to aggressively litigate and does so when necessary, but she also understands that many cases are better and more quickly resolved through amicable, less costly means such as negotiation and mediation, and in the business context can often be avoided all together by taking proactive steps to comply with the law and be armed with solid contracts, policies, and procedures.

Collaboration is key. Attorney Swartz works with you not just for you. She ensures from the start that she understands your issues and concerns, outlines your options, and helps you assess the time and expense of each potential avenue available so that as a team a decision can be made about how best to proceed. She then works endlessly to achieve the desired results.

Attorney Swartz has been repeatedly named to the Massachusetts Rising Stars and Super Lawyers List in the field of labor and employment. She previously served as the Chair of the Amicus Committee for the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association. She is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she was a full-scholarship athlete on the Women’s Gymnastics Team, and Northeastern University School of Law.

Bar Admissions

  • Massachusetts, 2002
  • Missouri, 2015
  • Kansas, 2015

Education

  • Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts
    Juris Doctor
  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
    Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, Bachelor of Science in Sport Management
    Honors: Full-Scholarship Athlete Women’s Gymnastics

Courses/Seminars

  • Chair and Faculty, MCLE Seminar: Top 10 FMLA Situations and Solutions
  • Panelist, Northeastern University School of Law Annual Employment Law Seminar
  • Faculty, MCLE Seminar: Annual Employment Law Conference
  • Faculty, MCLE Video Deposition Module: Taking a Deposition in an Employment Law Case
  • Faculty, MCLE Seminar: Mastering Discovery Deposition and Summary Judgment Strategies in Employment Cases
  • Co-Chair and Faculty, MBA Seminar: Ethical Issues in Employment Law

Honors and Awards

  • Massachusetts Super Lawyers Rising Star List, 2007-2009, 2013
  • Massachusetts Super Lawyers List, 2014-2025

Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. The result is a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of exceptional attorneys. Only 5 percent of lawyers in each state are selected to the Super Lawyers list and 2.5 percent to the Rising Stars list annually.

Contact Swartz Law Today

Look no further than Swartz Law for an employment and business attorney that you can trust to handle your legal claims. Call today at (816) 444-8900 in the Kansas City area and (617) 871-1500 in Massachusetts.