Laura Coates

Laura Gayle Coates is an American 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 has served as a legal analyst for CNN, and became the network's chief legal analyst in 2023. Since October 2023, she has also hosted a nightly news discussion TV program on the network, Laura Coates Live.