Fuel Counsel

Draft for Basim · Not shared

The Fuel Counsel Table

A private room of seven people at four firms, comparing what actually gets a lead booked, signed and followed up. Peers, not prospects. No pitch inside it.

Once a month, 90 minutes, a Thursday at 1 PM Central (day to be confirmed)

Format

Two tables and a joint close

Owners sit at one table and their operators at another, away from their own firm, so each can speak freely. The two tables meet for the last twenty minutes. Basim hosts and Feras co-hosts.

Owners table

  • Feras · Mousilli Legal Group

    Co-host and lead practitioner. Opens with how a real firm runs on AI.

  • Anu · Kinhal Law

    Show your numbers: what a solo flat-fee firm tried, what worked, what was cut.

  • Joseph · Emmerth Divorce Law

    The fixed-fee product seat: prenup tiers and what each client needs from a person.

  • Beth · Mediation Mosaic

    The mediation-before-filing seat. Monthly, no homework.

Operators table

  • Megan · Mousilli Legal Group

    Ops and compliance: written options, bar-safe wording, what staff actually adopt.

  • Janet · Emmerth Divorce Law

    Intake: the first ten minutes after a lead comes in.

  • Mimi · Mediation Mosaic

    Approvals: what a lawyer's office needs to see before anything goes live.

Who sits together

Three working groups

IP pair

Feras and Anu

From click to signed matter. Trademark and patent intake, and a referral path between two markets.

Family pair

Joseph and Beth

Mediation before filing as a referral loop with a divorce practice, and fixed-fee prenup packages.

Operators

Megan, Janet and Mimi

The first ten minutes after a lead, approval checklists, calendars and notifications.

Cadence

Light on time

  • The Table: monthly, 90 minutes.
  • Operators working hour: monthly, 45 minutes, on a different Thursday.
  • A one-page written recap within 24 hours of every session, no login needed.
  • Counsel Hours stays open and optional to all seven. Replays have chapters. No homework.

First session

Ninety minutes, from click to consult

  1. 1

    Open · 0 to 10 min

    Welcome, the five ground rules, and what this is not: no pitch and no pricing.

  2. 2

    One number, one stuck thing · 10 to 30 min

    Each owner, four minutes: one real number from the firm and the one thing that is stuck.

  3. 3

    I Was the Bottleneck · 30 to 55 min

    Feras on how a firm runs a case with AI, where a person signs off, and ten minutes of questions.

  4. 4

    Breakouts · 55 to 75 min

    The IP pair, the family pair and the operators each work one problem.

  5. 5

    Back together · 75 to 85 min

    Each group says the one thing it would copy.

  6. 6

    Close · 85 to 90 min

    Each person picks one workflow for the month. Next date set. A one-page recap follows within 24 hours.

Ground rules

Said at the start of every session

  • Nothing leaves the room.
  • No client names or confidential facts, ever.
  • No talk of fee splitting or percentage-of-fee deals.
  • Real faces and real voices only.
  • Every session ends with one written page.

A draft outline for Basim. Never legal advice.