Whether to lighten the workload or to strengthen your firm’s bench, growing the firm demonstrates and confirms your success. As good as expansion may feel, you need to do it right. To avoid a letdown about a new hire, you must first put a process in place that uses objective criteria to measure a candidates’ attributes.Lateral hiring results in disappointment when hiring decisions are made emotionally and quickly. And they often are. Confident in business and adept at reading people, most lawyers will make …