Mimi Coffey is a trial attorney with 17 years experience.  She is the founder of The Coffey Firm, with law offices in Dallas, Tarrant and Collin counties.  She is board-certified in DWI by the National College of DUI Defense (NCDD) and has been the Texas delegate for the NCDD for several years.

She has also appeared numerous times as a legal commentator for CNN, National Fox News, as well as local Dallas/Fort Worth stations on DWI-related stories.  She is also a frequent speaker at both national and state-wide seminars.

She is a prolific trial attorney with a proven trial record.  She has tried over 300 cases, with 80% of them being jury trials in her 17-year career.  Her success include everything from .21 breath tests, blood tests  to 3 car accident cases just  to name a few. Mimi’s cases have also made good case law for the State of Texas.  For example, in Tarvin v. State, it was found that weaving within your own lane was not a traffic violation. In Lajoie v. State, the courts determined that the defendant’s request to have his attorney must be suppressed as opposed to used as evidence of guilt.

She is the author of Texas DWI Defense:  The Law and Practice.  She is also the author of three nationally-published articles and four state-wide articles.

Mimi has twice attended Indiana University’s Borkenstein Course for state toxicologists both on alcohol and drugs.  She has also completed the NHTSA SFST Course, SFST Instructor Course and the 12-Step DRE Mini-Course Program.  She is also one of the first attorneys in the United States to attend the Axion Labs Gas Chromatography Training. Her minor in college was Geology lending her a comprehensive and disciplined scientific mind when it comes to scientific and mathematical issues such as blood and breath testing.

Mimi has won the President’s Heart of a Champion Award presented by the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (TCDLA) numerous times.

Mimi also led the effort to get the State Bar of Texas’ Board of Legal Specialization to recognize the NCDD’s DWI Certification.

Mimi has been active over the past 4 legislative sessions in fighting against bad DWI laws.  Her efforts prevented the breath/blood test refusal as being a separate crime.  She has advocated for true deferred adjudication for DWI.

Mimi also sued a Dalworthington Gardens police officer for illegally drawing blood.  Since her lawsuit, the 2nd Court of Appeals ruled against police officers drawing blood.  (The Court of Criminal Appeals overturned this).

Mimi also sued the Texas Department of Public Safety for its double jeopardy surcharge program.  Since the initiation of her suit, Texas DPS  has instituted amnesty programs based on one’s earning potential.

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: