DWI Trial Lawyers, Texas DWI Criminal Defense Lawyer

Mimi Coffey is the founder of the Coffey Firm which has offices in both Dallas and Fort Worth focusing exclusively on DWI. Recently, she has been recognized by the National College of DUI Defense for passing their DUI Defense Board Certification exam. She has completed courses on NHTSA Standardized Field Sobriety Testing as both a practitioner and an instructor. She has also met the requirements of the DOT 49 CFR Part 40 and has completed classes as an Intoxilyzer 5000 series operator and maintenance technician by C. E. S. Consulting. She has also completed the Robert F. Borkenstein course on Alcohol and Highway Safety: Testing, Research and Litigation as well as the Borkenstein course on DWI/DUI drugs: The Effects of Drugs on Human Performance and Behavior, both courses designed for state technical supervisors.

Additionally, she is the founder of the Premier DWI Trial Lawyers Seminar in Arlington, Texas as well as the founder of the Society for the Exchange of DWI Technological Research in Tarrant County, Texas. She is a sustaining member of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association as well as a member of the Tarrant County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the Dallas County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, and the Tarrant County Bar Association and State Bar College.

Ms. Coffey graduated Salutatorian from Brewer High School and she obtained her B. A. from Baylor University, majoring in Political Science with a minor in Geology which gives her an extensive scientific background. She obtained her Juris Doctorate from the Texas Tech School of Law.

Areas Of Practice

       Founder of the Premier DWI Trial Lawyers Seminar
       The Texas Delegate For The National College of DUI
           Defense, Inc.
       Founder of the Society For The Exchange of DWI
           Technology Research, Tarrant County
       Sustaining Member of the Texas Criminal Defense
           Lawyers Association

Below is a brief list of some of the seminars in which Mimi has spoken:

       DWI Training & DWI Committees:

Mimi testified during the 2005 Texas Legislative Session
    for fair DWI laws at committee hearings for HB51 &
    HB3241.

2005 - DWI Seminar Committee Chairperson - Texas
    Criminal Defense Lawyers Association

Texas Delegate to Nation College of DUI Defense

April 2005 - Co-course Director for the "12th Annual
    Mastering Scientific Evidence in DWI / DUI Cases" -
    Dallas, Texas

March 2004 - Co-course Director for the "Premier
    Scientific DWI Seminar" - Arlington, Texas

2000 - Founder & Coordinator of education meetings for
    the Society for the Exchange of DWI Technological
    Research

May 2003 - Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
    Dallas, TX Use of Experts in DWI Trials

April 2003 - Northeast Tarrant County Bar Association
    CLE Luncheon Colleyville, Texas DWI Trial Strategy

February 2003 - Tarrant County Bar Association Cruise
    DWI Strategies

December 2002 - Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers
    Association, Fort Worth, TX Use of Expert Witnesses in a
    DWI Trial

August 2002 - DWI Defenders on the Beach - Cozumel,
    Mexico Use of Expert Witnesses in a DWI Trial

March 2002 - Tarrant County Bar Association Brown
    Bag Seminar - Ft. Worth, Texas Use of Expert Witnesses
    in a DWI Trial

April 2001 - Premier DWI Trial Lawyers Seminar -
    Arlington, Texas Cross Examining the Police Officer

April 2000 - Premier DWI Trial Lawyers Seminar -
    Arlington, Texas DWI Trial Strategy Mimi Speaks to 2005
    Texas Legislature on DWI:

DWI Defense For Texas Drunk Driving, Fort Worth DWI Defense Lawyer

Below is a brief list of some of the seminars in which Mimi has spoken:

UPCOMING SEMINAR
September 2008
Caesars Palace Las Vegas
DWI Means Defend With Ingenuity
"The Aging Process and Field Sobriety Tests" - Speaker

April 2008
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and National College for DUI (DWI in Texas) Defense - "14th Annual Mastering Scientific Evidence in DWI / DUI Cases" - Co-course Director

May 2007
20th Annual Aggressive Defense of the Accused Impaired Driver Seminar - Tucson Arizona - "How to Win a Breath Test Using the State's Technical Supervisor" - Speaker

April 2007
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and National College for DUI (DWI in Texas) Defense - "14th Annual Mastering Scientific Evidence in DWI / DUI Cases" - Co-course Director

June 2006
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association - "19th Annual Rusty Duncan Advanced Criminal Law Short Course" - Speaker

March 2006
Tarrant County Mexican American Bar Association - "How to Win a Breath Test Using the States Expert" - Speaker

January 2006
Florida Bar Association - "Masters of DUI / DWI" - Speaker

October 2005
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association - "Top Gun DWI Seminar" - Speaker

April 2005
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and National College of DUI (DWI in Texas) Defense - "12th Annual Mastering Scientific Evidence in DWI / DUI Cases" - Co-course Director

March 2004
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
�Premier Scientific DWI Seminar� - Co-course Director

December 2003
Tarrant County Young Lawyers Association - DWI Trial Strategy

May 2003
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association Dallas, TX - Use of Experts in DWI Trials

April 2003
Northeast Tarrant County Bar Association CLE Luncheon Colleyville, Texas - DWI Trial Strategy

February 2003
Tarrant County Bar Association Cruise - DWI Strategies

December 2002
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Fort Worth, TX - Use of Expert Witnesses in a DWI Trial

August 2002
DWI Defenders on the Beach Cozumel, Mexico - Use of Expert Witnesses in a DWI Trial

March 2002
Tarrant County Bar Association Brown Bag Seminar - Ft. Worth, Texas - Use of Expert Witnesses in a DWI Trial

April 2001
Premier DWI Trial Lawyers Seminar - Arlington, Texas - Cross Examining the Police Officer

April 2000
Premier DWI Trial Lawyers Seminar - Arlington, Texas - DWI Trial Strategy