Susan Kayler, an attorney practicing in Arizona and Wisconsin, is closing her law offices and taking on new challenges in the legal field. She is using her extensive experience to guide the evolution of the practice of law as it changes with the economy, technology and advancing trends in the law.

As a practicing attorney for more than twenty years, she has had an outstanding record of accomplishment in the legal field. Her love of technology coupled with her experience as a judge and prosecutor, led her to create the first electronic prosecutor’s offices in the state of Arizona. She developed websites for her firm’s municipal clients so that victims, defendants, defense attorneys, officers, courts, witnesses and others had virtual access to the justice system.

Her practice concentrated on appeals, criminal law, drunk driving defense, traffic law, family law, divorce and photo radar defense. She has had experience as a former prosecutor, a defense attorney and judge. She is considered the country’s leading authority on photo radar legal issues and is the author of the #1 best-selling book on photo radar law “Smile for the Speed Camera–Photo Radar Exposed!” You can purchase her book and view her website of photo radar information at PhotoRadarLaw.com. Susan has an extensive background of community service and an outstanding reputation in the legal community.

Accomplishments and community service:

• Judge, 2011 Mock Trial Competition
• Web design and development, Walworth County Bar Association
• Webmaster, Inverness Community Association
• Prosecutor – Towns of Cave Creek, Carefree, El Mirage, Avondale, Fountain Hills, Scottsdale
• Advocacy Committee, Tempe Bike Action Group
• Public Defender – City of Scottsdale
• Consultant – City of Scottsdale Prosecutor Office Restructuring
• Interim Presiding Judge – Town of Carefree
• Scottsdale Board of Adjustment
• Editorial Board, Arizona Attorney
• Instructor, Professionalism Course – State Bar of Arizona
• Graduate, Scottsdale Leadership Program
• Instructor, Legal Seminars – Lorman, ASU College of Law

Media

Susan Kayler has written articles for local newspapers and Arizona Attorney magazine, a publication of the State Bar of Arizona. Her article can be accessed on the State Bar of Arizona’s website: Focus on Photo Radar

She has been featured on KTAR radio, KMXP, KFYI, KFNN, and KXAM radio stations. She was a frequent guest on KSAZ Fox Phoenix Newsmaker Sunday with host John Hook, KTVK News, KTVK 3 On Your Side, KPNX and KNXV. Visit PhotoRadarLaw to hear and see the latest coverage.

Susan’s book, Smile for the Speed Camera–Photo Radar Exposed! is also available in the following public libraries:

• Scottsdale Public Library
• Prescott Valley Public Library
• Sedona Public Library
• University of Texas libraries
• Drake University Law Library
• Rochester Public Library

Articles, books and media

featuring Susan Kayler:

• Arizona Freeway Speed Cameras posted on National Motorists Association.
• Gotcha! Phoenix New Times, February 8, 2007
• Masked Man Avoids Speeding Ticket, AOL Autos, September 22, 2009
• Three on Your Side, License Suspended Even Though Woman Wasn’t Served Ticket, September 29, 2009
• Photo Ticket Challenges Face Uphill Road to Win, Honolulu Star Bulletin, February 17, 2002
• Big City Shakedown, Times Publications, November 2009
• Photo Radar Uncovered, NBC reporter Dave Cherry, November 30, 2005
• Debate Continues Over Photo Enforcement, Melanie Kiser, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism
• Critics: Photo Radar Violates Due Process to Generate Revenue, Matt Culbertson, State Press, Arizona State University, October 9, 2008
• Do Scottsdale Citizens Want Photo Radar? Times Publications, John Dickerson, 2005
• Scottsdale Attorney Questions Photo Radar Arrest, Webwire, February 4, 2005
• Book Advises How to Fight Photo Radar, East Valley Tribune, March 10, 2010
• Do You Need to Pay your Photo Radar Ticket? Dave Cherry, Call 12 for Action, February 22, 2007
• Dodging Photo Radar Server Won’t Get you Off Hook, 3 On Your Side, Gary Harper, August 15, 2009
• License Taken Years After Ticket, KPHO, CBS, Peter Busch, September 2, 2009
• Speeding Ticket Going to U.S. Supreme Court, East Valley Tribune, June 17, 2006
• Inland Authorities Split on Use of Automated Speed Signs, The Press-Enterprise, January 11, 2009
• Think You’ve Dodged That Photo Radar Ticket? 3 On Your Side, Gary Harper, August 15, 2009

Photo Radar: Podcast on iTunes, The Libertarian Solution, April 1, 2009

Notable Appellate Cases:

• State v. D’Agosto, Superior Court of Arizona LC2005-000932

Mining/Property Rights

• Decision of the Secretary of the Interior, Board of Land Appeals in favor of landowner’s rights to restrict private property from being used for recreational mining purposes; Susan Kayler, Appellant
• Above-referenced decision quoted in Loyola University Law Journal Article, SAND WARS: Mineral Reservation Policies Lead the Supreme Court to Determine Whether Sand Is a Valuable Mineral in the Nevada Desert
• Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Gower Federal Service, Mining Decisions
• Public Natural Resources Law, Volume 2, George Cameron Coggins, Robert L. Glicksman discussing Susan Kayler’s appeal to the Department of the Interior

Divorce/Child Custody

• Higgins v. Higgins, made headlines when the court decided in favor of the mother who was represented on appeal by attorney Susan Kayler, FindLaw
• West’s Pacific Reporter, West Publishing Company, Higgins
• Higgins case listed in Table of Cases in Mediation Law and Practice, Cambridge University Press, January 2007

Other

• Arizona Year Book, Arizona Information Press, 1987-88