My book is called Skip the LSAT? with a question mark because I'm not telling anyone to skip it. I'm saying some people can.
Whether you're one of them comes down to three things you have to decide together: the kind of law you want to practice, the place you want to practice it, and the education that place will accept. Your location, your work, and your legal education are going to dictate your career, and how well it goes.
Most people should take the test. My estimate is that 95 percent of you should. That number is my own judgment, and nobody measured it. If you've just finished your bachelor's degree and you're in your 20s or early 30s, take the LSAT.
The book is for everyone else, and for anyone still working out which group they're in. It counts the routes into law school that don't run through an admissions test, and it shows the catch on each. One limits which bar exams you can sit. One depends on a school choosing you. One takes years.
The position you don't want to be in is going through all this legal education and not being able to sit a bar. So start with the place. Pick three states where you'd be willing to live and work, and find each one on the map.
Then read the chapter that argues for the LSAT before you decide. I wrote it to make the other side's case as hard as I could.
Skip the LSAT? is out today in Kindle and paperback. See where to buy it.