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Laura Coates

1979–

United States

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Laura Gayle Coates (born July 11, 1979) is an American legal analyst, attorney and television personality. 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.

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