Susan practiced law for 38 years, focusing on a wide range of environmental issues including permitting and permit challenges, resiliency, water quality, enforcement, mitigation banks, litigation, mediation, congressional lobbying, and appeals. She is a partner at Nason Yeager Gerson Harris and Fumero. Formerly, she worked as a Practice Expert Attorney with the South Florida Water Management District and earlier worked as a corporate attorney and Congressional Lobbyist with Florida Power and Light Company.

She is board certified in State and Federal Government and Administrative Practice by the Florida Bar and AV Preeminent rated by Martindale-Hubbell. She is also a Supreme Court Certified Mediator and a LEED Accredited Professional by the U.S. Green Building Counsel.

She is the Chair of the Environmental and Land Use Law Section of the Florida Bar (ELULS) and editor of the ELULS column in the Florida Bar Journal.  She is the founder of the ELULS Resiliency Committee. Susan is a frequent conference speaker and author, with 5 articles in the Florida Bar Journal and 6 treatises in the ELULS Treatise.  She is the founder of the Florida Bar Resiliency Committee and formerly its chair.