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