Atty. Ted Harvatin

• Theodore J. (Ted) Harvatin grew up in Rochester, Illinois, a farming and bedroom community near Springfield
• His mother was from Benton, Illinois, where her parents, who emigrated from Macedonia (the former Yugoslavia), started and ran a bakery for 40 years
• Ted's father, who was an electrical engineer at Illinois Bell Telephone, grew up in Sesser, Illinois
• Ted's dad's parents emigrated from Croatia, another part of Yugoslavia, and Ted's grandfather Harvatin toiled in the Sesser coalmines
• Ted's uncle played professional baseball in the St. Louis Cardinals' baseball organization
• After graduating from Rochester High School as a member of the National Honor Society, Ted attended Knox College, a private liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, a small community near Peoria
• Ted majored in economics and business administration, and graduated Cum Laude (high honors)
• The college faculty selected him for membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most prestigious academic fraternity in the nation, whose members represent the top 10% of their graduating class
• Ted was admitted to, and graduated from, the University of Illinois College of Law, a Big Ten university located in Urbana-Champaign
• Based on his law school admission test scores, Ted was accepted as a member of the Mensa International Society, which according to its web site "is a society [that] welcomes people from every walk of life whose IQ is in the top 2% of the population
• Ted began practicing law in Springfield in 1981
• He believes that his diverse family background and intellectual accomplishments give him unique insight into the problems that his clients face in today's world
• Ted and his son, Alex, enjoy anything having to do with cars
• Ted is also an avid bicyclist
• Harvatin Law Offices is a sponsor of Team Mack, a local semi-professional bicycle-racing team
• Ted himself is a former Big Brother and is a sponsor of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Sangamon County
• Professional & Bar Association Memberships Sangamon County Bar Association Member Since: 1981 Illinois State Bar Association Section Member, Traffic Law Council Member Since: 2006 - present Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Association of Trial Lawyers of America Representative Cases Davis v
• Industrial Comm'n (Charles J. Gramlich), 261 Ill
• App. 3d 849
• 634 N.E.2d 1117 (4th Dist
• Industrial Commission Div. 1994) City of Springfield v
• Indus
• Comm'n. (Glenn Wessel), 328 Ill
• App. 3d 448
• 766 N.E.2d 261 (4th Dist
• Industrial Commission Div. 2002) Clark v
• Jesse White (Illinois Secretary of State), 343 Ill
• App. 3d 689
• 798 N.E.2d 412
• 278 Ill
• Dec. 310 (4th Dist. 2003) Webb. v
• White (Illinois Secretary of State), 364 Ill.App.3d 650
• 850 N.E.2d 233
• 302 Ill
• Dec. 796 (4th Dist. 2006) Wild. v
• White (Illinois Secretary of State) 2006 Unpublished Opinion
• Published Works "Strategies in Handling DWI and DUI Cases: Driver's License Hearings with the Illinois Secretary of State"
• Lorman Educational Services
• June 22, 2006
• Springfield, Illinois "Court Supervision in Traffic Cases: New Strategies for Amended Laws"
• Illinois Bar Journal, April 2006, Volume 94, No. 4, pgs. 192-93. (Reprinted in Westlaw online and distributed at annual Judge's training course.) "DUI Will Travel: When Drunk Driving Cases Cross State Lines
• Illinois Bar Journal, August 2011, Volume 99, No. 8, pgs. 406-409)
• Speaking and Lectures Worker's Compensation and Vocational Rehabilitation
• April 16, 2001
• Department of Rehabilitation Services Retreat, Shelbyville, Illinois "The Prairie Lawyer" (local public access cable television program)

Topic

Driver's License Hearings with the Illinois Secretary of State

Speaker

• "Strategies in Handling DWI and DUI Cases: Driver's License Hearings with the Illinois Secretary of State"
• Lorman Educational Services
• June 22, 2006
• Springfield, Illinois Moderator/Speaker "Traffic Law Update"
• Illinois State Bar Association, Law Ed Series, March 3, 2007