LAW 700
Pretrial Civil Litigation
Lecture.
Fall 2025: 2 sections. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was about 2 months ago.
Grades
3.98
Average grade awarded in LAW 700. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
99%
of the 84 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
74%
100% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 84 grades over 9 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 9 terms ran 3.92 to 4.00.
Historical grades for BARIL, JESSICA REICH, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- P 72 of 72
Counts are out of 72 recorded outcomes. These are non-letter grades and do not have a GPA.
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WETZSTEIN, SARAH R reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 3.97 | 48 | 4 | 98% | - | not teaching it |
| LIGHT, JASON ALAN reviews ↗ | 3.98 | 4.00 | 36 | 6 | 100% | - | Waitlist, 0 of 5 places taken |
| WANEBO, THOMAS AUGUSTUS reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 4.00 | 18 · | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| CHURG, EMILY reviews ↗ | 3.96 | 3.98 | 18 · | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| VANDERHOOFT, CHRISTIAN reviews ↗ | 3.92 | 3.92 | 16 · | 1 | 94% | - | not teaching it |
| COTTON, GERLONI reviews ↗ | P/NP | 11 P/NP | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| ANDRE, SARAH ERICKSON reviews ↗ | P/NP | 15 P/NP | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| BARIL, JESSICA REICH reviews ↗ | P/NP | 72 P/NP | 4 | - | - | Waitlist, 0 of 5 places taken | |
| BABBE, DAVID BRYCE reviews ↗ | P/NP | 56 P/NP | 2 | - | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
No reviews were listed in the BruinWalk source checked 6 days ago. Assignment details are unknown. Check the current syllabus.
In Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Catalog description unavailable. Check the registrar's course description.
Where to check the course description
Follow the registrar link on a section below for the course description and prerequisites. Additional prerequisites may appear in the description.
Sections in Fall 2025
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 2 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Seats
Waitlist0 of 5 places taken.
16 of 16 enrolled
Seat risk
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Seats
Waitlist0 of 5 places taken.
18 of 18 enrolled
Seat risk
-
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 15 and 21 a term over 9 terms, summer excluded, most recently 17 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking LAW 700 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2025
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 2 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Baril, J.R. · 16 of 16 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 16 of 16.
Lec 2 · Light, J.A. · 18 of 18 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 18 of 18.
How readings and alerts work
Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.