I didn’t take it but was looking into it. You can take it even after applying to law schools, they will wait on you getting your result to decided whether give you a place tho. You can do it now and get it over and done with but when I was looking I was booking it for November and I had already sent my uni applications by then. I was also in uni group chats for law and a lot of people were waiting in jan for results but I guess it’s better to take earlier than later as you won’t have to balance lnat and normal school work/mocks. If you don’t want to take it then just avoid unis that ask for it. That leaves you with Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, leeds, Cardiff and exeter out of the Russel groups