Announcements & Reminders
For March OCI questions and assistance, please reach out to MichiganLawOCI@umich.edu
Action Items:
Add your interviewers to your schedule(s)
Important Links for Reference:
Flo Recruit Interview Management Guides for Employers
Reviewing Applications and Submitting Decisions
Adding or Editing Interviewer Information
Viewing Matches, Student Documents, and Schedules
March 4-5, 2026 OCI Registration:
Employer registration is closed on Flo Recruit. Please reach out to MichiganLawOCI@umich.edu to review registration options. All interviews will be remote and hosted via Flo Recruit. Recognizing the changes to the hiring cycle, we will allow up to 50% of the OCI schedules to be pre-selected by employers.
For registration assistance and instructions, please view the Flo Recruit guide linked here.
SJD & Dual Degree Students
A number of our S.J.D. candidates indicate an interest in practicing in the US either permanently or for a period of time after graduation. Each year a handful of S.J.D. candidates participate in OCI. These students come from many different countries and are selected from hundreds of applicants. Annually many of these students plan to take an American licensing examination.
Dozens of our J.D. candidates are also pursuing either a joint master’s degree or Ph.D in other schools throughout the University. Joint degree students face demanding requirements from their programs. Because of their interdisciplinary approach to the study of law, they bring a unique expertise to their employment settings. These students usually complete requirements for both degrees in four years.
*Times are in EST
November 24 – Registration opens on Flo Recruit
January 12 – Grades released
Week of January 12 – Interview dates assigned
February 6 – Employer registration closes
February 9 – Student bidding opens
February 20 – Student bidding closes
February 23 at Noon – Student applications are available to view and download in Flo Recruit.
February 23 at Noon through February 26 at Noon – Employer selections and alternates due (up to 50% pre-select).
February 27 – Schedules released to students
February 27 – Interview cancellation period
March 2 – Interview add period
March 2 – Schedules and interview links shared with employers (afternoon)
March 2 – Deadline to enter interviewer names to Flo Recruit
March 4 – Interview add period for March 5 OCI (8:00-10:00 a.m.)
March 4-5, 2026 OCI
Week of March 9 – Invoices issued
March 4-5, 2026 OCI Fees:
Firm Size:
<100 – $500
100+ – $1,500
*Fees are flat rates regardless of the number of interview schedules.
OCI invoices will be issued the week of March 9.
Employer Cancellation Policy
Schedules canceled on or before February 16 will receive a full refund. Schedules canceled after February 16 will be refunded half of the registration fee. Upon request, firms with schedules that are less than 25% filled as of March 2, 2026, will be eligible for a full refund.
Registration is open for March 4-5, 2026 OCI on Flo Recruit. Please register using the link below:
For registration assistance and instructions, please view the Flo Recruit guide linked here.
Student Interview Options (multiple offices)
Note that you will have the option to allow students to interview with your organization multiple times. This will default to off, but you can easily toggle it on if you wish for the student to speak with different interviewers or for different job positions:
You will also be prompted to make a choice when you go to make a new schedule:
Flo Recruit
We are using Flo Recruit to host March 4-5, 2026 2L OCI.
For those employers that have not yet used the Flo Recruit platform, it is a web-based tool (optimized for Chrome) and does not require any downloads or plugins to use. We have learned, however, that it does not work as smoothly if you are accessing the internet via a VPN.
Test Room Link: https://florecruit.com/video/testRoom/.
Flo Recruit Resource Center
Flo Recruit created a Virtual OCI Resource Center with quick video guides and how-to documents. We encourage you to share the link to this resource center (https://help.florecruit.com/en/) with your interviewers before OCI.
Flo Recruit OCI Registration and Job Creation Guide
Flo Recruit Interviewers: OCI Frequently Asked Questions
Interviews
All times listed in Flo Recruit are in Eastern Time. Interviews will be held from 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. EST (unless adjusted per request from employer). There are two 10-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon with a 30 minute lunch within the window of 12:00-12:30 p.m. EST depending on the length of your interviews.
The office location for which the student has interest is listed on the interview schedule. It is possible that a student is interested in more than one location. We have instructed the student to let the interviewer know if they are interested in more than one office.
Commitment to Transparency
Beyond posting a job to Symplicity and Flo Forward, making affirmative efforts to keep our office informed of your hiring practices is essential to supporting the students through this process. We strongly encourage you to reach out to us with information and updates to your summer 2027 hiring plans.
Non-discrimination and Equal Opportunity in Employment
The University of Michigan Law School is a diverse community and the Law School seeks to create and sustain an environment of inclusivity for all of its students that is free from discrimination and harassment. The University of Michigan Law School’s Non-Discrimination policy is set forth below:
The University of Michigan Law School, as an equal opportunity employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding non-discrimination. The University of Michigan Law School is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, height, weight, military status, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.
As a condition of using the Office of Career Planning’s facilities or services, employers must observe these principles of equal opportunity and non-discrimination with respect to their own hiring, promotion, retention, and conditions of employment.
Complaints that prospective employers have violated this non-discrimination policy, or have otherwise engaged in illegal, inappropriate, or unethical conduct during the recruiting process will be investigated and, where appropriate, sanctions up to and including exclusion from recruiting activities may be imposed.
*By Presidential Executive Order, the United States Armed Forces employment policies discriminate on the basis of gender identity and gender expression. Current federal law, however, effectively prevents the Law School from applying its non-discrimination policy to military recruiters, including those for the Judge Advocate General Corps. The fact that military offices recruit on-campus in no way reflects an endorsement by the Law School of their discriminatory employment practices. The Law School is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all students.
Shannon Delecki, Director of Recruitment Programs
If you have a question related to your interview schedule or logistics, please email the Office of Career Planning at MichiganLawOCI@umich.edu. Please know that we will respond as quickly as possible to your question/request and will do our best to accommodate.