1L’s Promising Pundit Career Cut Short Because of Harvard Law Finals?
Jeremy Haber’s star rose and and fell before we had a chance to draft a post. Haber is a first year student at Harvard Law School and recently made the finals in the Washington Post’s “America’s Next Great Pundit” contest. From the Harvard Crimson via ABA Journal:
Jeremy L. Haber, a first year student at the Law School, is one of four finalists remaining in the Post’s “America’s Next Great Pundit” contest, the winner of which will write 13 weekly op-ed columns on a topic of his choice.Haber, who said he entered the contest on an impulse, has emerged from over 4,800 entrants to outlast six other finalists — including a Nobel laureate in physics, an assistant secretary of commerce in the Bush administration, and a Middle East expert at the Council on Foreign Relations.
These are the columns that got him into the final rounds. Unfortunately, some other finals got in the way of his punditry. He is a 1L and it is mid-November…
We asked Haber how he was balancing the contest with his 1L fall semester:
Short answer to your question above is “poorly.”
Haber was slightly relieved then to be eliminated from the contest last night. The judges said:
Jeremy impressed us with his energetic reporting. The round two judges suggested he could be America’s Next Great Reporter. And round three judge Gene Weingarten declared that Jeremy had the best answer of the Q&A: “There is a leadership vacuum on both sides.” (Responding to a question on the Middle East.) Jeremy, we look forward to reading and hearing more from you.
Jeremy told us:
Been very challenging to do competition and school work, but thankfully just enough time to catch up before exams.
Unfortunately, punditry skills don’t tend to come in handy for 1L exams. (Or so Elie tells us.) Someone give this guy an outline.
HLS Student Is Pundit Finalist [Harvard Crimson via ABA Journal]
HLS student Jeremy Haber selected as finalist in Washington Post pundit contest [Harvard Law School]
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BREAKING NEWS:
1L enters contest, loses.
firsty y'all :)
Um, stop studying for awhile and see if you can't get a bomb writing gig? Freelance writing >>> lawyer.
I will trust ATL to keep me informed the next time something interesting almost happens.
What are finals?
3L SECURE
pundiTTTry?
Harvard finals are after winter break right? Its def too early to study!
This one's for chappy!
I nominate him to be ATL's new EIC - while neither he nor Elie passed the bar, his writing ability HAS to be far superior to that of the incumbent....
I've got 90 rounds left and 1 missle! Should I engage?
Is the Washington Post even accredited by the ABA?
Smart move to check out alternative career path while still in law school.
Kash, can I see your iron eagle?
Knotcher
Is it really that difficult to study for finals at a school that doesnt give you grades?
is harvard an accredited law school?
A 1-in-4,800 chance at a part-time job in the shriveling husk of the U.S. journalism industry rivals a shot at BigLaw from the #2 law school in the country? BigLaw is DEAD!
I suppose that I should know the answer to this, but is Harvard Law School fully accredited by the American Bar Association and a member in good standing of the Association of American Law Schools?
I suppose that I should know the answer to this, but is Harvard Law School fully accredited by the American Bar Association and a member in good standing of the Association of American Law Schools?
Along with journalism, the kid also considered being a telephone operator, an elevator attendant, and a telegraphist.
I suppose that I should know the answer to this, but is Harvard Law School fully accredited by the American Bar Association and a member in good standing of the Association of American Law Schools?
He looks like he would be a Harvard 1L. Oddly enough, I can also picture him as one half of a couple featured in Legal Eagle Wedding Watch in five years.
RIP PE! I took off work today to mourn his passing due to a heart attack in the VIP Room at Rick's Cabaret.
This headline is misleading: the Harvard 1L's promising career was cut short because he was eliminated from the contest.
Do you get a deep throating fee from HLS for each mention of some assbasket doing nothing of particular worth in an incomplete, runner-up sort of fashion? If you don't, you should really look into that.
YAAAAWWWWNNNN . . . .
It would have been funnier if the Post had told Jeremy that he was hired, but his start date was being deferred indefinitely.
This guy has twice the talent of ELIE.
Honestly, hire him ATL. Really.
Good lord this website has become sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo useless.
Wow, I wish I'd known about this contest. This guy cannot write to save his life. First, most of his articles are interviews, which doesn't show any skill other than access to people. And while that may be a legitimate skill, it conveys nothing about his intellect, his viewpoints, or the quality of his writing. Second, his posts are full of numerous grammatical errors that make me cringe. Seriously, I wish I had known about this contest.....
Now, this is a story all about how his life got flipped, turned upside down, if you will. It'll likely take a minute, so just sit right there, and I'll tell you how he became the prince of a town called Bel Air.
OK ,he seems like a smart and nice kid. Who wrote this piece, his Mom?
Harvard 1L farts in the library. ATL, where is the coverage? Get on it.
I went to college with a current HLS 2L who totally would have won this contest had he entered.
Good for him. Cheers, Jeremy.
Dear ATL: this blog post is boring.
Here is why I am lost, who cares about finals????
He is in Harvard. It is pass/fail. Worry about the contest (it will set him apart on his resume from the rest of the TFB's who attend Harvard since grades won't help him)
HardTTTvard
Did PE really die?
HLS finals for 1Ls aren't until January. You should have consulted with Ellie before writing this article.
I go to HLS, and I have to say, all you haters can suck it. We are still getting plum jobs EASY SON!!!! Plus it's pass/fail now, so I doing nothing but partying hard and banging hotties. It's sweet being an HLS student, thank god I'm smart.
*"party hard" and "bang hotties"
Thank God you made stupid errors in your post.
cant believe nobody's commented on how the finals excuse is just a cop out for his FAIL
HLS finals are December this year.
38 - Did you really say "Easy Son." You must be one of those "Special" students harvards accepts every year to appease the austic public interest groups.
-I Am Sam
38 - There are no hotties at HLS. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
HLS '05
Let me get this straight: this post is about something awesome almost happening, and then a 1L takes his finals?
Awesome.
God bless you, 43. You have singlehandedly saved this thread.
Gentlemen at the legal preparatory academy with which I was once affiliated, which is the selfsame institution mentioned in the posting to which this response is appended, were, in fact, NOT in the habit of obtaining carnal knowledge of attractive women, for indeed there were precious few persons meeting such a description to be found in the general vicinity of Langdell and its associated buildings. Gentlemen who claimed otherwise were possessed of a deplorable lack of standards and, as noted by a predecessor posting herein, condemned to eternal hellfire for so claiming. While the gentlemen were, as a result of the situation described here, somewhat frustrated, this was not considered to be particularly significant, particularly since the difficulties faced by the gentleman was representative of most legal preparatory academies.
This post is addressed to Legal Frat Fart,
Please keep the homosexual details of your "gentlemen sessions" to yourself.
19 FTW.
Give me a break, there are many law school students that balance demanding full time (40+ hour) jobs with law school, and especially law school finals.
Looks to me that BigLaw cannot use this guy....
He's given up his career as a Harvard 1L to pursue a career as a yellow-toothed freak.
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