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Coiner is a Founding Member of the National College of the DUI Defense. He is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He has twice completed the National College for DUI Defense educational program at Harvard University . He was featured in the October 7, 1996 issue of Lawyers Weekly USA and the July 20, 2000 Lexington Herald Leader. In the last year, Coiner has successfully litigated cases in the United States Court of Appeals (6th Circuit), the United States District Court, Western District of Kentucky, the Kentucky Supreme Court, the Kentucky Court of Appeals, Kentucky Circuit Court and Kentucky District Court.
Of over 88,000 federal cases resolved in America in 2003, less than 500 resulted from a jury trial acquittal. Coiner litigated one of the successful cases. He helped a client obtain a jury trial acquittal on methamphetamine charges after three-day trial in December, 2003.
Coiner was also lead counsel for one of the defendants in the case of Commonwealth v. Jonathan Shane McManus and Adam Levi Keister, reported in 107. S.W.3d 175 ( Ky. 2003). Coiner's client entered a conditional guilty plea to trafficking in marijuana after the trial judge overruled Coiner's motion to suppress evidence. Coiner was successful in having the trial judge's decision overturned in the Kentucky Court of Appeals. After Coiner argued the case before the Kentucky Supreme Court, the highest court in the Commonwealth also ruled in favor of Mr. Coiner's client. The case was then remanded to the McCracken Circuit Court where it was dismissed.
Since 1995, Coiner has successfully litigated over 100 DUI cases into jury acquittals, dismissals or non-DUI dispositions.