Training that Makes a Difference

The Criminal Mastermind Jumpstart is four live sessions with Jay Ruane, managing partner of a high seven figure criminal defense firm and founder of The Criminal Mastermind — the only coaching community built exclusively for criminal defense law firm owners.

Each session tackles a core challenge facing criminal defense firms today:
Intake systems that turn calls into clients. Delegating and building firm systems. AI tools for criminal defense firms. Managing digital marketing vendors.

Every other Tuesday, starting September 15, 2026 at 3pm Eastern.

You’ll learn the three-part framework that makes any system easy to build, easy to follow, and easy to update when things change. You’ll walk through all six operational categories of your firm and identify exactly where your gaps are. And you’ll leave with a printed checklist your team can start using before the week is out.

This 18 module course is available FREE to active Mastermind members and takes viewers through the unique sales approach needed for criminal defense clients and trains them to be better at identifying the client’s real need, understand their mental framework, and assist them in choosing your firm. Based on the Amazon® best selling book “From Call to Client.”

Every lead that contacts your office cost you money to generate. Google ads, SEO, networking events, referral relationships, they all have a price. When that lead calls in and disappears without hiring you, that money is gone.

Most criminal defense attorneys don’t have an advertising problem. They have an intake problem.

In this four-module course, Jay Ruane shares the exact referral system he has used for 24 years to build a 44-person firm from a solo practice. It starts with a simple framework: identify 50 people across four specific categories, approach them the right way, maintain those relationships systematically, and follow up in a way that turns referrals into ongoing referral sources.