Overturning the conviction, the judge wrote that the lack of pretrial preparation by trial counsel . . . cannot be justified.

He won't want to go through all the pretrial preparations with the accompaying agitation and notoriety.

We couldn't possibly have managed the pretrial preparation in so short a time without a man like Leo Kimura.

Part of the pretrial preparation.

So too, it seems, for the industry's most famous defendant, the Microsoft Corporation, in its pretrial preparations.

In its pretrial preparations, Microsoft has deposed seven of the 44 Netscape executives interviewed by the authors.

My pretrial preparation is meticulous.

Analyzing cases, poring over documents, choreographing evidence for jury presentation - in short, doing much of the pretrial preparation that lawyers generally hand over to outside consultants.

Texas hopes that will lead to faster pretrial preparations and a trial within 18 months.

That stalled the pretrial preparations, particularly the taking of depositions from Mr. Gates and 16 other Microsoft executives, leading both sides to request the two-week delay.