Although he was born, raised, and works in southeastern Wisconsin, Tim Trecek has earned a national reputation as a successful plaintiff’s trial lawyer. Tim’s successes have been so noteworthy that they have been chronicled in papers such as the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the Fort Worth Star Telegram, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle and dozens of other publications.
Tim is a shareholder at Habush Habush & Rottier and has been a member of the firm since 1995. In 2017, he was elected by his partners as a corporate officer of the firm (Secretary). He is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and is a managing partner of both the Milwaukee and West Bend offices. Tim specializes in all types of personal injury litigation. He has successfully litigated cases involving automobile defects (airbags, seatbelts, seats and structural integrity), construction accidents, misfilled prescriptions, car/motorcycle accidents, truck/semi accidents, slip/trip and falls, dog bites, injuries involving horses, brain injuries, RSD (reflex sympathetic dystrophy), machine defects (saws, chippers, cement mixer defects, deer stands, snow blowers), child car seats, and personal watercraft. He has specialized experience with serious burn injuries from events such as gas explosions and utility/electrical accidents.
Tim has worked on cases throughout the United States. Due to his significant trial experience, he has been certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy, and has been selected for exclusive membership in the American Board of Trial Advocates. He was recognized in the January 25, 2006 issue of the Wisconsin Law Journal for holding three of the state’s top five settlements in 2005. In 2009, he obtained the third largest reported award in the state of Wisconsin - $6 million - for his client who was injured in an accident with a semi-trailer truck.
In February of 2011, Tim obtained a $16 million award on behalf of eight injured scaffold workers involved in a dust explosion at a Wisconsin power plant. This is the largest award in the state’s history involving injuries caused by an explosion of PRB (Powder River Basin) coal dust. It also makes Tim the sole attorney in Wisconsin to have four multi-million dollar recoveries against the state’s largest utility.
In 2011, the Wisconsin Association for Justice selected Tim as the annual recipient of the prestigious Robert L. Habush Wisconsin Trial Lawyer of the Year Award. Additionally, Tim was named as one of Wisconsin’s Leaders in the Law in 2008 by the Wisconsin Law Journal. In 2013, Tim was accepted as a Fellow in the prestigious American College of Trial Attorneys, one of the youngest recipients of this venerable honor. In 2015 and 2017, Tim was honored to be listed as Lawyer of Year for Product Liability Litigation in Milwaukee by Best Lawyers in America. He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since 2010. Tim was requested by the Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court to serve two terms on the District 2 Committee of the Office of Lawyer Regulation.
Since 2005, Tim has been teaching an Advanced Trial Practice course at Marquette University Law School. He has given speeches to other lawyers on a variety of legal topics. Using his experience in child car seat defect cases, he has given presentations to parents of pre-school children concerning the safe use of child car seats. He is also a Fellow in the International Society of Barristers. Additionally, he has been recognized on the Wisconsin Super Lawyers list each year since 2006, making the Wisconsin Top 10 list in 2014. In 2016, he was once again named to the Top 25 Milwaukee list and was also named on the Top 50 Wisconsin list. Recently, Tim was elected to the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee, one of the nation’s oldest, continuously operating, public interest law firms. Tim is also actively involved in his church and the community.