Once you have gained between two and six years of entry level legal consulting experience, you should begin to think about breaking into your dream legal consulting job. The first step in this process will be to decide whether you want to work with a consulting agency or on your own.  If you are interested in being a part of a consulting team, look for legal consulting jobs online and through your network. Reach out to people you know in the field and ask if they know of any availabilities. Send resumes to agencies you find online, even if they do not currently have any openings. Try looking at indeed or SimplyHired for possible job postings. If you are interested in starting your own legal consulting practice, you will need to create a business plan, market your business, and gain a valuable client pool. Follow the steps below in order to start the process. A business plan is a written description of a business's future, including information on your goals and how you plan to reach them. When you are creating your business plan for your legal consulting business, be sure to identify the services you want to provide and develop a plan to market those services to your ideal clients. For instance, if you are planning on being a legal consultant focusing on human resources, you will want to tailor your marketing efforts and reach out to local and national organizations that attract human resources specialists. Understanding where to focus your efforts will lead to quicker and better results and will allow you to get on your feet faster. Once you have gained a loyal client base and you have firmly built your legal consulting career, do not become complacent. Continue to work hard expanding your business, but make sure you are having fun doing it.

Summary: Decide whether you want to work independently or as part of a consulting agency or group. Create a business plan. Work hard and enjoy your career.


Fit one decorating bag with a drop flower decorating tip, like tip #2D, and fill it halfway with medium royal icing in the color desired for the flower petals. Place a round tip, like tip #3, on the other piping bag and fill one-quarter with the center color icing. Prepare the work surface by covering it with parchment paper or wax paper, taping it down as needed to prevent the paper from peeling up as you work. Use enough paper to hold as many flowers as you wish to make. Position the drop flower tip directly over the parchment paper, holding it so that the tip just barely touches the surface.  Keep the bag at a 90-degree angle from the work surface. If you tilt it, you'll distort the shape of the flower. Rotate your hand one-quarter turn without piping the icing. The back of your hand should face away from you. If you're right-handed, your knuckles should be at the 9-o'-clock position; if you're left-handed, your knuckles should be at the 3-o'-clock position. Gently squeeze the pastry bag while slowly rotating your hand. Continue squeezing and rotating until your hand returns to its normal position. Your knuckles should return to the 12-o'-clock position, so you'll end up rotating 90 degrees (one-quarter turn). Immediately stop squeezing the bag once you complete the turn. As soon as the icing stops flowing, lift the tip away. Lift the tip straight up. Removing it at an angle can distort the shape of the petals. Hold the round tip bag at a 90-degree angle in the center of the flower. Carefully squeeze a small dot of icing into the center.  The tip should almost touch the flower itself, and the icing you squeeze out should come into direct contact with the petal icing. Keep the tip buried as you pipe the center dot. Stop squeezing once the dot looks large enough. When the icing stops flowing, lift the tip up and to the side so that no tail hangs off. Allow the flower to dry for 30 to 60 minutes, then carefully peel it away from the parchment paper. Store the dried flower in an airtight container until you're ready to use it.  If you plan to make multiple flowers, form all of them before letting them dry. Make sure that each one dries for at least 30 minutes. You can apply these flowers to the surface you wish to decorate with fresh icing.

Summary: Prepare your supplies. Hold the drop flower tip above the paper. Simultaneously squeeze and rotate. Lift away the tip. Squeeze a dot in the center of the flower. Store until ready to use.


Open a new web browser tab or window and go to the Google Contacts website. Google has made it possible for us to use one Google account across all Google products. Enter your Google email address on the first text box and the password on the second text box. Then click the blue “Sign in” button below the boxes. Sometimes you might not be asked to sign in, especially when you are already logged into any product of Google, like Gmail or Google Chrome. Instead, you are taken straight to your Google Contacts. The “Add New Contact” button is at the bottom right corner of the page. It is represented by a red circle with the (+) sign on it.  A small window will appear on the top of the page where you will be required to input a name. Do this in the text field provided, when you’re done, hit “Create” at the bottom. You will be taken to the Edit Contact page. The Edit Contact page has several options for you. You can add a photo, nickname, email, phone, address, birthday, and additional notes. You can add all the fields as prompted; however, because we are adding contacts to Google Maps, the most important field here is “Add address.” Click the Add address” option, and a text box will appear for you to type the physical address of the person or organization, e.g., Nairobi, Kenya. Once you hit “Save,” a pop-up window will appear showing the contact name you have added and the address of this contact. Close the window to go back to Google Contacts page.

Summary: Visit the Google Contacts website. Sign into Google Contacts using your Google account. Click the “Add New contact” button. Type the name of the person/organization that you are adding to Google Maps. Enter contact address information. Click “Save” to save the details.


The Grub menu appears right after you turn on the computer. In most cases, it only stays on the screen for a few moments.  If you don’t press E before the Grub menu disappears, reboot and try again. This method works for most popular Linux distributions (Ubuntu, CentOS 7, Debian). There are many distributions of Linux, some more obscure than others. If you’re not able to get to single-user mode with this method, check your distribution’s website for instructions specific to your system. Use the ↑ and ↓ keys to do so. This is the line you’ll need to modify in order to boot into single-user mode. In CentOS and some other distributions, the line may begin with linux16 rather than linux. Use the →, ←, ↑, and ↓ keys to place the cursor right after ro. The end of the line should now look like this:ro init=/bin/bash. Note the space between ro and init=/bin/bash. This tells the system to boot directly to a root-level command prompt in single-user mode. This mounts the file system in read-write mode. Since booting into single-user mode gives you root access, there’s no need to pass additional parameters to the passwd command. The characters you type won’t be displayed on the screen. This is normal. When the system confirms you’ve re-entered the same password, you’ll see a message that reads “password updated successfully.” This command reboots the system normally.
Summary: Restart your computer. Press E at the Grub menu. Scroll to the line that begins with linux	     /boot. Move the cursor to the end of the line. Type init=/bin/bash after ro. Press Ctrl+X. Type mount –o remount,rw / at the prompt and press ↵ Enter. Type passwd at the prompt and press ↵ Enter. Type a new root password and press ↵ Enter. Retype the new password and press ↵ Enter. Type reboot –f and and press ↵ Enter.