Susan Ursel is a partner with the law firm of Ursel Phillips Fellows Hopkinson. She completed her LL.B. at Osgoode Hall Law School in 1984 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1986. Susan has practised in the areas of labour, employment, employment equity and human rights law since then. Her work also includes the development of educational seminars and presentations for clients with respect to issues involving labour, human rights and employment equity. She has served as a nominee on arbitration boards and, in that capacity, has helped to mediate settlements of a variety of issues.

Susan appeared on behalf of "Families in Partnership" before the Supreme Court of Canada in the Chamberlain case, also known as the "Surrey Book Banning Case." Most recently, she appeared in the Supreme Court on behalf of Women's LEAF in Honda v. Keays.