TED CLARK is a founding partner of the law firm of Clark Baird Smith LLP.  He graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. degree from Syracuse University and received a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.  With over 50 years experience, Ted represents both public and private sector management clients with respect to a wide variety of collective bargaining and employment law matters, including mediation and interest arbitration.

Ted is a co-author with Judge Harry Edwards and Professor Charles Craver of Labor Relations Law in the Public Sector: Cases and Materials (Bobbs-Merrill 1974), the first law school textbook in the area of public sector labor relations.  The fourth edition was published in 1992.  For many years he taught the public sector labor law course at Northwestern University Law School.  Ted has also written numerous articles and publications that have been published by such journals as the UCLA Law Review, the Journal of Law and Education, the Wisconsin Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the Oregon Law Review, and the Illinois Bar Journal.  For the past thirty, he has been listed in the book The Best Lawyers in America.  In 2005 Ted was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Bar Association’s State and Local Government Committee.  In 2010 Ted was the first recipient of the American Bar Association’s Arvid Anderson Public Sector Labor and Employment Law Lawyer of the Year Award.