On Losing My Dad and Learning Lessons from Him Along the Way
I lost my Dad, Theodore Groom, on November 26 - and the past 10 days has been fairly overwhelming - both in terms of the outpouring of love that my family and I have experienced and also at how hard it has been to lose someone who has been a major pillar of my life. My Dad started a law firm in 1975, called Groom Law Group, that focuses on employee benefits law - and is in fact the largest employee benefits law firm in the country. My Dad was very well known in the employee benefits law space, having been integral in the drafting of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (known as ERISA). He was the recipient of many "best of" awards throughout his legal career, including being listed as a Best Lawyer in America for 26 years. If you are interested in learning more about my Dad: Obituary Groom Law - Remembrance of Ted Groom He was a titan - a mountain of a man. I, of course, knew many sides of my Dad: the adventurer who hitch hiked from Arlington, Virginia to Kans