re: American Bar Association drops LSAT requirement for Law School admissions

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You can deflect all you want but this is just part of the march towards insanity.

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I'm not deflecting anything. If you want to make a slippery slope argument, be my guest. Neither of us can prove the future. But if we are talking about this one change, it just doesn't matter. Prior to this change, no applicant was barred from attending law school because their LSAT score wasn't high enough. Any law school could take whatever applicant they wanted, regardless of relative LSAT scores. Going forward, law schools are allowed to mandate LSAT scores if they so choose. And the ABA will still come down on law schools that don't have high Bar passage rates.

In short, everyone can decry this "culture shift", and that's fine. But the people on this thread pretending as though this will have any kind of effect on the number of attorneys in the market, or on the quality of attorneys in the market, are simply ignorant, and I mean that in the purest, least insulting sense possible.