After practicing several years as a CPA with two international accounting firms, Mr. Coffman received his law degree from the University of Texas in 1989. He began his legal career in Houston with a large Texas law firm where he represented plaintiffs and defendants in commercial litigation. Since that time, his law practice has focused on business cases, consumer cases, complex commercial litigation and class actions.
As an experienced commercial litigator and CPA, Mr. Coffman understands and appreciates business issues, accounting and finance, damages issues and, most important, that the “litigation tail should not wag the business dog.”
From his home base in Beaumont, Texas, Mr. Coffman represents individuals and businesses – both plaintiffs and defendants – across Texas and throughout the United States. He is AV peer review rated, the highest rating possible, by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, rated Superb by Avvo, and designated a Texas Super Lawyer (2015-2018).
Admissions
- All Texas Courts
- United States Supreme Court
- United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- United States Court of Federal Claims
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
- United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
- United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Illinois
- United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- Admitted pro hac vice in various state and federal courts throughout the United States
Bar Associations
- State Bar of Texas
- United States Court of Federal Claims Bar Association
- Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit
- Bar Association of the Eastern District of Texas
- Jefferson County Bar Association
Community Service
- The American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR)
Chairman of the Board of Trustees (2016-present)
Treasurer (2013-2016)
Board of Trustees (2013-present)
Executive Committee (2013-present) - Beaumont Crime Stoppers
Treasurer and Executive Committee (2010-2011)
Vice-Chairman and Executive Committee (2012-2013)