Rule 1.2. [Purpose] 1

A. The purpose of the pre-trial conference is to promote the following: Fair, orderly and just disposition of causes without trial. B. To permit the parties, without prejudice to their right to trial, to engage in disclosure and conduct negotiations for disposition without trial. C. To provide discovery as hereafter set forth. D. To eliminate the need for setting matters for trial which are intended to be disposed of without trial, thereby avoiding loss of time of judges and court personnel, and to enable the court to administer its trial docket in a more just and efficient manner. E. In those causes which cannot be fairly disposed of without trial, to enable the court and the parties to have a trial set on a date and time certain.