All 8 Uses of

brief
in
1st to Die, by Patterson

She won't get within a mile of a police briefing for the next year.
p. 33.7

briefing = giving a summary of important information

McBride had to be back in the office for a press briefing on the investigation.
p. 189.1 *

With a sigh, she shifted a tower of briefs aside.
p. 240.5 *

briefs = summaries of important facts -- especially opinions regarding a legal case

Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:

But now, outside the Hyatt, Cindy felt her brief run of luck had come to an end.†
p. 29.1

In the brief span of their marriage, she and Michael had made love several times and taken two steamy showers together.†
p. 97.3 *

After a brief wait, the receptionist said the doctor would see me himself.†
p. 214.8

I found Clapper — looking weary and unshaven — catching a brief rest at the dining room table.†
p. 303.5

Definitions:

(1) (brief as in: briefed her)
to give a summary of important information to someone
(2) (brief as in: legal brief)
a summary of important facts -- especially an opinion of a legal case
(3) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus)
meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:

Brief is most commonly encountered as an adjective meaning "of short duration." Other meanings derive from the idea of short--as when making a long story short by summarizing it, or when wearing briefs (underwear).