# Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies

> Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies is a bipartisan government relations and strategic communications firm that links Washington advocacy with state capitals, city halls, policy intelligence, procurement strategy, coalition work, and reputation management. Founded in 2009 as an affiliate of the Cozen O'Connor law firm, it serves corporations, nonprofits, trade associations, startups, and prominent individuals through more than 50 professionals across nine U.S. offices.

- **Founded:** 2009
- **Headquarters:** Washington, United States
- **Founders:** Cozen O'Connor (Parent company and creator)
- **Products:** Federal lobbying, State and local lobbying, National advocacy, Strategic communications and reputation management, Procurements, grants, and loans
- **Notable:** Expanded from three regional offices in 2010 to nine offices across the East Coast and Midwest., Built a team of more than 50 professionals spanning federal, state, local, communications, and research disciplines., Its New York practice ranked seventh on City & State New York's 2025 Top 50 State Lobbying Firms list, moving up five places.

## Products & services

- **Federal lobbying** — Legislative and executive-branch advocacy, coalition building, policy analysis, stakeholder management, procurement strategy, and federal issue tracking.
- **State and local lobbying** — On-the-ground advocacy in state capitals and major cities, including governors' offices and municipal government.
- **National advocacy** — Coordinated multistate work alongside governors and state attorneys general capabilities.
- **Strategic communications and reputation management** — Messaging, earned and paid media, crisis and litigation communications, executive positioning, digital strategy, and media training.
- **Procurements, grants, and loans** — Opportunity identification, application stewardship, funding-pipeline monitoring, and ongoing advocacy for public contracts and financing.
- **Policy monitoring and analysis** — Daily legislative and regulatory tracking, analysis, white papers, draft proposals, testimony, and issue-specific intelligence.
- **Winning Edge content** — Political intelligence including Cozen Currents, local newsletters, and the Beltway & Beyond podcast.

## Achievements

- Expanded from three regional offices in 2010 to nine offices across the East Coast and Midwest.
- Built a team of more than 50 professionals spanning federal, state, local, communications, and research disciplines.
- Its New York practice ranked seventh on City & State New York's 2025 Top 50 State Lobbying Firms list, moving up five places.
- New York State's preliminary 2025 data ranked CPS tenth by number of clients, with 214 reported clients and $6.7 million in compensation in that jurisdiction.
- CEO Howard Schweitzer joined Fast Company's Impact Council in 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — The New York practice rose five places to seventh on City & State New York's Top 50 State Lobbying Firms list.
- **2025-09** — CEO Howard Schweitzer was named to Fast Company's Impact Council.
- **2025-07** — Matthew Murray joined as a principal to expand integrated communications, digital strategy, and executive positioning work.
- **2025-06** — Pennsylvania political strategist Ryan Boop joined the government relations practice.
- **2024-04** — Tamara R. Hinton joined to lead the strategic communications practice.
- **2024-01** — Health policy specialist Rick Van Buren joined the national health care lobbying team.

## Links

- Website: https://copublicstrategies.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cozen-o-connor-public-strategies/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/COPubStrategies
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CozenOConnor

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Last updated: 2026-09-24