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 was served as a chief legal analyst for CNN, and became the network's chief legal analyst in 2023.