When Ted was young, people used to ask him what he wanted to do when he grew up and he would say that he wanted to be a lawyer.  He actually had no opinion on the subject one way or the other, but the lawyer answer seldom prompted a follow-up so he considered it to be useful.  When he reached the age of 21 with safe draft lottery number in hand and no interest in entering the real world, law school seemed again to be a convenient answer.  

But Ted has learned a lot about a few things and a little about a lot of things, from the barge and towboat industry to the deemer clause of the preemption provision (29 U.S.C. 514(b)(2)(A)(ii)).  He has lectured on American benefits law in the People’s Great Hall in Beijing and passionately argued an unemployment proceeding in Room 311C of the Harriman Government Building in Haupaugge, New York.  He has shared a cubicle with a chain-smoking married Texan who talked on the phone all day with his girlfriend and looked out over the White House and Washington monument from a corner office.

Ted came to Groom after almost eight years in the government, including service as the Assistant Counsel for Litigation in the Department of Labor’s ERISA program, and almost twenty years as a partner at two other law firms.  He is looking forward to many more years of practice in the best employee benefits law firm in the country.  Some choices turn out better than others.