Laura Coates

Laura Coates is an American attorney and legal analyst. She has worked as a trial attorney for law firms Faegre & Benson and Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman. Coates also served as a federal prosecutor for the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. Since 2016, she has been an analyst for CNN, and in 2023, she became the network's chief legal analyst. Coates obtained her B.A. from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs in 2001 and her J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2005. With a strong background in law, she has become a respected figure in the field of legal analysis.