What's the connection between legal recruiting, virtual piano parties and Zoom engagement?
Ari Kaplan. Photo by Lauren Hillary. Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Dan Binstock, a legal recruiter and co-owner of Garrison & Sisson, a leading attorney search firm. Binstock is also the creator of the Virtual Piano Party. Ari Kaplan: Tell us about your background and the genesis of Garrison & Sisson. Dan Binstock: In college, I studied music and quickly realized that the fact that I didn’t read music and only played by ear was not an ideal background for a career in classical music, so I switched to psychology. After graduating, I went to law school and became an IP attorney at Finnegan & Henderson (now Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner), for about four-and-a-half years. I love talking to people more than billing my time and thought about going back to school to become a therapist, who would focus on working with lawyers, but didn’t want to obtain another degree, so I became a legal recruiter because I love the idea of helping people move from one job to another. I started off with a national search firm in 2004, and in 2010, I moved to Garrison & Sisson as a partner.