In any action, the Board's General Counsel may request that the parties appear for a pre-hearing conference to consider the following:
If a party or a party's representative fails to appear, the pre-hearing conference may proceed in their absence.
The Board may enter an order which recites the action taken at the conference, the amendments allowed to the pleadings, and the agreements made by the parties as to any of the matters considered which limit the issues for hearing, to those issues not disposed of by admissions or agreements of counsel or parties. The order, when entered, shall control the subsequent course of the action.
D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 3, r. 3-415