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About Timothy Trecek
Timothy S. Trecek is the Vice President, Chief Operations Officer, and Corporate Secretary of Habush Habush & Rottier S.C., where he has practiced since 1995. He serves as managing partner of both the Milwaukee and West Bend offices and concentrates on all types of personal injury litigation.
Trecek earned his Juris Doctor from Marquette University Law School in 1993, where he received the American Jurisprudence Award, and his Bachelor of Science from Marquette University in 1990. He is admitted to the State Bar of Wisconsin.
Trecek is a Civil Trial Specialist designated by the National Board of Trial Advocacy (2004) and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Litigation Counsel of America, American Bar Foundation, and International Society of Barristers, as well as a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and the Inner Circle of Advocates. His professional memberships include the American Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, the Wisconsin Association for Justice, the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and the Motorcycle Injury Trial Lawyers Association. He serves as an Adjunct Professor at Marquette University Law School and is active with the Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee.
His honors include Wisconsin Super Lawyers recognition (2006-2015), Top 10 Super Lawyers (2014), the Robert L. Habush Wisconsin Trial Lawyer of the Year (2011) from the Wisconsin Association for Justice, the Tommy Malone Outstanding Verdict Award (2020) from the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, the Martindale-Hubbell Client Distinction Award (2013), and multiple Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year designations in Product Liability and Personal Injury Litigation (2015-2026). In 2020, Trecek and his team obtained a $38.16 million verdict in Racine County in a defective vehicle seat case against Hyundai Motor Company - reported as the largest single-plaintiff verdict in Wisconsin history at that time.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Habush Habush & Rottier S.C.
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Robert Habush won a $99.25 million Milwaukee County jury verdict for the widows of three ironworkers killed when the Big Blue crane collapsed at Miller Park. The appeals court vacated the $94 million punitive award, the Wisconsin Supreme Court reinstated the claim in 2005, and the widows settled in January 2006 for about $30 million.
A Racine County jury found Hyundai's driver-seat and head-restraint design defective and awarded Edward and Susan Vanderventer $38.1 million, the largest single-plaintiff compensatory verdict in Wisconsin history, later upheld on appeal.
A Milwaukee County jury awarded $25.3 million after emergency room providers failed to tell Ascaris Mayo that her symptoms could mean a Strep A infection, an omission that cost her all four limbs, though the Wisconsin Supreme Court later reinstated the state's $750,000 cap on noneconomic damages.
A Fitchburg family recovered $22.5 million after their six-week-old son suffered permanent brain damage during surgery at UW Health's American Family Children's Hospital. The suit alleged an anesthesia resident failed to respond to prolonged low blood pressure readings. It is the second largest payment ever made by Wisconsin's Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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