- Mimi Coffey has created an aggressive, creative and ethical trial practice dedicated to defending those accused of impaired driving. She has set herself apart in the local community as a premier DUI defense trial attorney and has litigated a number of DUI-related cases to verdict. She is recognized in her legal community as a tenacious yet ethical litigator.
Mimi Coffey is the only attorney that is board-certified in DWI law in North Texas (and one of only two in Texas). She has written books on DWI defense including Texas DWI Defense: the Law in the Practice.“ She’s done approximately 400 DWI jury trials. She is the Dean of the National College of DUI defense. She has had national articles published in The Champion and The Voice. She knows the law and science (blood science). She is known as the “DWI Queen“ among DWI lawyers throughout the State. Establishing her own firm in 2020, she has offices in Fort Worth and Dallas and covers an 11-county area in North Texas with a concentration on DWI, and criminal defense. Mimi has appeared as a legal commentator for CNN, national Fox News, and local Dallas/Fort Worth stations on DWI related stories. She has earned the president‘s heart of a champion award from the Texas Criminal Defense lawyers association numerous times.
She is a frequent National and State speaker of DWI, appears on panels nationwide, and is an instructor of standard field sobriety practices. She attended and completed both the practitioners and instructors course on National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) standardized field sobriety training and is a co-owner of an Intoxilyzer 5000. With a scientific background with a minor in geology, she works to see that scientific integrity and constitutional protections apply to DWI cases. Over 100 of her trials have been “not guilty” or reduced or dismissed.
She has helped establish (through trials and appeals) pro-defense precedents, including the elimination of single-lane weaving as a traffic violation and the law to prevent prosecutors from introducing evidence of a defendant’s request for an attorney. She helped the legislature to change State laws so breath and blood test refusal may not be prosecuted as a separate crime from the underlying alleged DWI defense.
She has received numerous awards and honors such as Super lawyer 2014 and 2016 by Thompson Reuters as seen in Super Lawyer‘s magazine; top attorneys by Fort Worth magazine, 2019. 2021, and 2022. Fort Worth Weekly featured her as the Best of 2020 Reader’s Choice Best Lawyer. She is a life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation. She was selected as a Top Attorney in 2018 and featured in Fort Worth, Texas Magazine in 2011. And received the Presidential Award from TCDLA (Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association) for dedication and devotion to the principles and ideas of the association in 2009 and 2012. She was featured in the Fort Worth Star Telegram in 2004. She received the Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice Presidents Commendation in 2016. She is admitted to the Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas
She was featured in the Texas Lawyer 2015 as an extraordinary minority in Texas law. The daughter of a Japanese mother she is a minority woman. She has established a $25,000 scholarship at her alma mater, Texas Tech University School of Law, earmarked for minority students. She has housed a Ukrainian family in her home for years and is rehabbing a home for the family at her expense.
She has run for State representative in 2002 and again in 2024. I have never known any attorney to work harder for her clients.