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Need Some Advice

I'll probably regret this later because I am likely to get conflicting information and end up totally confused, but here it goes:

My very LAST semester of law school is finally upon me and I have no idea what to take!!! Should I focus on bar classes heading into the bar exam or should I take classes more geared at what I want to do (criminal prosecution)? Is it important to have a more well-rounded list of classes on your transcript should I ever want to get out of criminal prosecution?? AHHHHH!!!

The subjects tested on my state's bar (besides the 6 tested on the MBE) are:
Corporations
Trusts/Estates/Wills
Family Law (rules specific to my state)
Civil Procedure (rules specific to my state)
Secured Transactions or Commercial Paper
Admin Law

Of those courses listed above the ONLY one I have taken so far is, well NONE. I will be forced to take admin to graduate, so that knocks one off the list. I can also knock off family law and civil procedure since I took general (federal) civil procedure 1st year and everyone I have talked to says that the family law part of the bar exam in my state is super easy (easy enough a high school kid could pass with a couple hours of studying). Soooooo, that leaves me with:
Corporations
Trusts and Estates
Secured Transactions
Commercial Paper

The other FUN and totally relevant to my job classes that I would probably rather take are:
Evidence Practicum (where you actually LEARN how to use the rules of evidence in trial)
Motions Practice
Prosecution Practicum

So what's the verdict?? Does Bar/Bri really teach you everything you need for the bar?? Do I need to load up on bar classes this last semester since my bar classes are pretty sparse to this point?? Or is it more important to take classes that are personally interesting??

HELP!!!

Full post as published by [ Useless Dicta ] on October 28, 2008 (boomark / email).