Timothy S. Trecek
Habush Habush & Rottier S.C.

Tim Trecek is a Managing Partner of his firm’s Milwaukee and West Bend offices and is the Corporate Secretary of Habush Habush & Rottier S.C., ® which has 34 attorneys in 13 offices, throughout Wisconsin.  Tim handles all types of personal injury cases; including, auto accidents, nursing home abuse, electrical accidents, premises liability cases and others, but has special emphasis and expertise in complex product liability cases. 

Tim has always excelled in obtaining great verdicts in the most difficult cases.  Early in his career, his first three 6-figure verdicts were trip and falls/slip and falls, in which his client had drank alcohol before the accident.  Another one of his early verdicts involved a car wash worker, with a six-grade education, who sustained a broken leg, while working at the car wash.  The case was lost at the trial court level, on summary judgment, on a coverage issue.  It went through the Court of Appeals and ultimately Tim successfully argued in front of the State Supreme Court, getting the trial court’s decision reversed, getting the case remanded back to the trial court, trying the case to a Milwaukee County jury and getting a verdict of over $1million.

Tim’s record of successfully litigating product liability cases can be plainly seen in his results.  Over the past 25 years, he has product liability awards totaling approximately $150 million; nearly $50 million in 2020 alone.  He has successfully litigated product liability cases against such recognizable companies as General Motors, Nissan, Harley-Davidson, Dorel and Evenflo car seats, Crown Fork Lift, New Holland, Caterpillar, Hi-Ranger, Oshkosh Truck, Morbark Chippers, Trek, Polaris and many others.  Earlier this year, Tim obtained a $38.1 million verdict against Hyundai Motor Company, in an enhanced injury, defective seatback case.  It was a 17-day trial, which included 27 trial witnesses, 390 trial exhibits and was tried against a $1 million pretrial offer.  It is the largest, single plaintiff, compensatory verdict in the state’s history.  It also included a record-setting $7.7 million award for the spouse of the injured plaintiff. 

Tim has been listed in the Best Lawyers in America for more than a decade, is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and, for many years, has been the ACTL liaison to the District 8, National Moot Court Competition, is both a Fellow and on the Board of Governors, of the International Society of Barristers and is a Fellow of the Litigation Council of America.  Additionally, he has been voted “Lawyer of the Year” for plaintiff’s products liability work, by Best Lawyers, four, out of the last six, years.  He is on the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee and has been an adjunct professor at Marquette University Law School for two decades, teaching Advanced Trial Practice.  He is a 1990 graduate of Marquette University and a 1993 graduate of Marquette University Law School.

Tim’s greatest pride comes from his over 26 years of marriage to his wife, Karyn and the love and support of their three daughters, Gabrielle (25), Danielle (22) and Isabella (16).