Earlier this month, Weil, Gotshal & Manges offered the nearly 5,000 lawyers around the world who used to work at the firm access to an app created exclusively for their use.

The New York-based firm's app helps with alumni networking, and it alerts former Weil lawyers when employers are specifically interested in filling job openings from their ranks.

Lawyers who leave Weil often “do great things,” explained Kito Huggins, the firm's director of executive administration, who helped create and introduce the app.