General Provisions

1. All offers to UHLC students should remain open for at least 14 days from the date of the written offer.
2. Students are expected to accept or release offers or request an extension by the applicable deadline. Offers that are not accepted by the offer deadline expire.
3. A student should not hold open more than five offers of employment at any one time. For each offer received that places a student over the offer limit, the student should release an offer no later than three business days after the receipt of the excess offer.
4. Employers should make every effort to schedule any off-campus interviews with UHLC candidates at times that do not conflict with students’ courses.
5. Practices inconsistent with these standards should be reported to the UHLC CDO at 713-743-2090 or lawcareer@uh.edu.
6. Employers with less than 40 attorneys or those offering part-time or temporary positions for the school term are exempted from the requirements of this policy.

Employer Contact with First-Year Students

1. To position law students to be as successful as possible, their efforts during the first semester of law school should focus on their studies rather than on job search activities. Nonetheless, opportunities to learn about professionalism, professional development, and the legal profession are appropriate early in law school, and UHLC welcomes employer participation in student programs focused on professional development and not recruiting.
2. Prospective employers and first-year law students should not initiate formal one-on-one recruiting contact with each other, including applications, interviews, or offers before November 1st. Employers should not conduct interviews of any first-year student between Thanksgiving and the student’s last final examination in the Fall semester. An exception for earlier recruitment is granted to government employers with extensive security clearance processes.

Summer Employment Offers to First-Year Students

1. All offers to first-year students for summer employment following their first school year should remain open for at least 14 days from the date of the written offer.
2. Students may accept the offer at any time prior to the offer deadline and should strive to make offer decisions in a timely manner.
3. Employers are strongly discouraged from making summer employment offers to first-year students that obligate students to work for the same employer during their first and second summer (as compared to providing students the option to return for their second summer). If an employer does request a commitment from a first-year student to work for them during their second summer, the employment should be for a maximum of two weeks at the end of the second summer term.

Summer Employment Offers to Upper-class Students

1. Offers to second-year students for summer employment should remain open for at least 14 days from the date of the written offer. Reasonable student requests for extensions should be honored.
2. Offers for summer employment made before the start of UHLC’s On-Campus Interview (OCI): Session I (including offers to first-year summer associates requesting them to return the following summer) should remain open for at least 14 days from the first day of OCI: Session I. UHLC’s OCI: Session I schedule may be obtained here or by contacting the CDO at 713-743-2090 or lawcareer@uh.edu.
3. Employers offering positions for the following summer to candidates previously employed by them are encouraged to allow students to work during the second half of the summer term.

Full-Time Employment Offers to Upper-class Students Previously Employed by Employer

1. Employers offering full-time positions to commence following graduation to any student previously employed by them should leave those offers open until at least September 15th of the student’s final year of law school, provided that such offers are made prior to or on September 2nd.
2. Students should reaffirm these offers within 28 days from the date of the written offer, if an employer requests such reaffirmation in its written offer. Employers that have requested this reaffirmation may retract any offer that is not reaffirmed within the 28-day period.
3. After September 2nd of a student's final year of law school, employers offering full-time positions to commence following graduation to students previously employed by them should leave those offers open for at least 14 days from the date of the written offer.

Full-Time Employment Offers to Upper-class Students Not Previously Employed by Employer

1. Employers offering full-time positions to commence following graduation to any student not previously employed by them should leave those offers open for at least 14 days from the date of the written offer.
2. Offers for full-time employment made before the start of UHLC’s On-Campus Interview (OCI): Session I should remain open for at least 14 days from the first day of OCI: Session I. UHLC’s OCI: Session I schedule may be obtained here or by contacting the CDO at 713-743-2090 or lawcareer@uh.edu.