Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
(law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried;
more useful in civil than in criminal cases;
[syn: pretrial, pretrial conference]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pretrial conference
n 1: (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring
the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and
to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than
in criminal cases [syn: pretrial, pretrial conference]