Susan R. Tyndall

Personal Injury Lawyer in Waukesha, Wisconsin

Susan R. Tyndall, a shareholder at Habush Habush & Rottier’s Waukesha office, has been with the firm since 2013. Her practice focuses on appellate litigation, insurance matters, and personal injury. Over the course of her career, Susan has represented clients at every level of Wisconsin’s justice system, including jury trials in circuit courts, arguments before the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, and multiple arguments before the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Three of her cases were selected for the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s Justice on Wheels program. She has also handled appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Susan has extensive experience handling complex appellate and insurance matters. Her appellate work has included representing the plaintiffs in Vanderventer v. Hyundai Motor America, a product liability case that resulted in a $38.1 million jury verdict. Susan was part of the appellate team that successfully defended the verdict before the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. Additionally, she represented the plaintiff-appellant in Fredrich v. Farmers Group Property & Casualty Insurance Co., a 2026 Wisconsin Court of Appeals case involving underinsured motorist coverage.

Susan has been recognized as a Super Lawyer® every year since 2006 and was named among the Top 25 Women Wisconsin Super Lawyers in 2016–2018 and 2020. In 2025, she was selected to the Wisconsin Law Journal’s Appellate Attorneys Powerlist, which recognized attorneys practicing in appellate law throughout Wisconsin. She was also honored as a Wisconsin Law Journal Woman in the Law in 2017 and was named to the Wisconsin Law Journal Legal 250 in 2026. Susan has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® every year since 2024 in both Appellate Practice and Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs.

Susan has been active in Wisconsin’s legal community for decades. She served on the board of the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Appellate Practice Section from 2003 to 2010, including as Program Chair from 2006 to 2008 and Chair from 2008 to 2009. She was also the founding editor of the Civil Trial Counsel of Wisconsin’s Wisconsin Civil Law Journal and served as editor from its founding in 2003 through 2006, receiving the organization’s first Editor’s Award in 2006. Susan is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Association for Justice, the American Association for Justice, Serjeants Inn, and the Waukesha County Bar Association. She has also volunteered as an election monitor in Milwaukee and internationally and previously served on the board of the Zeidler Center for Public Discussion.

Susan graduated from the University of Illinois with a bachelor’s degree in political science and earned her J.D., cum laude, from Marquette University Law School in 1985.

Outside of her legal practice, Susan enjoys walking her dog, bicycling, kayaking, caring for her backyard chickens, and traveling to visit her children.