Laura Coates
Laura Gayle Coates (born July 11, 1979) is an American chief legal analyst, attorney, and television broadcaster. She has formerly served as a trial attorney for a law firms
Faegre & Benson and
Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, and a federal prosecutor for the
United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. Since 2016, she was served as a chief legal analyst for
CNN, and became the network's chief legal analyst in 2023. Since October 2023, she also hosted a nightly interview TV program, ''
Laura Coates Live'' on
CNN.
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