BELLE L. PRETTER
New Jersey Workers' Compensation DEFENSE
Counsel
Belle is a member of the firm’s New Jersey Workers’ Compensation defense team. She holds over 39 years of experience as a New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Law defense attorney. Through her career, she has represented all types of employers and agencies, including corporate, industrial, manufacturing, retail, staffing, construction, small-business, and public entities.
Professional Activities
Belle is admitted to practice in New Jersey and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. In 2017, she retired her practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, together with its Workers’ Compensation and Lawyers in Transition sections. She volunteers with the New Jersey State Bar Association Benchmark Civics Training project and actively participates as a member of the Monmouth County Bar Association—where she was appointed to the Workers’ Compensation Committee. She has also served as a docent for the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights, and Genocide Education at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, New Jersey.
Education
Belle received her Juris Doctor from the Temple University Beasley School of Law where she was a scholarship recipient, Treasurer of the Phi Alpha Delta Professional Law Fraternity, and member of the Barristers’ Society and American Bar Association. Belle graduated with Honors from the Douglass College at Rutgers University where she double-majored in History and Political Science. While at Douglass, she actively participated as a member of the Pi Sigma Alpha National Honors Fraternity for Political Science, received the Colonial Dames of America Award in History, and was named to “Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities.” She served as the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group Coordinator, News Editor and Announcer on WRSU radio, Rutgers Community Action’s Tutor and Big Sister, and Program Director for the Douglass Political Science Association. She also served on the Campus Government Counsel and was a Peer Counselor.