Something is amiss here. You don’t get served a summons for a pre-trial conference. You get served the summons and complaint to start the lawsuit. A pre-trial conference is only scheduled after the summons and complaint is filed and the defendant has answered. Before that has been done there is no point to the court scheduling a pre-trial conference. So give us some more background here. Was the summons and complaint for the lawsuit served? If so, did you answer the complaint? If you were not served the summons and complaint, did you file an answer to the lawsuit anyway? If so, how did the lawsuit come to your attention? Once the answer has been filed and the litigation started, a pre-trial conference may be scheduled by the court. The court would simply provide notice of the pre-trial conference to the parties; there is no need to serve a summons for that.

