Laura Coates

Laura Gayle Coates (born July 11, 1980) is an American legal analyst for CNN. In May 2016 she joined CNN as a legal analyst. Since 2017, she has hosted a talk radio-show, The Laura Coates Show, on radio SiriusXM's Urban View. The Laura Coates Show moved to SiriusXM's POTUS early in January, 2021. Coates is an adjunct law professor at the George Washington University School of Law and routinely speaks across the country on civil rights, social justice, economic empowerment and other topics.[1]

Laura Coates
NationalityAmerican
EducationPrinceton University (B.A. 2001)
University of Minnesota Law School (J.D. 2005)
OccupationAttorney, Commentator, Radio host, Law professor
Known forCNN analyst

In July 2018, Coates was mentioned by Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek as a possible replacement once his contract was completed.[2]

Education, experience and career

In 2001, Coates earned her bachelor's degree at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in New Jersey. In 2005, she received her Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota Law School.[3]

Coates began her legal career in Minnesota working at the firm of Faegre & Benson LLP.[4] She worked at Faegre for many years as an attorney. She did not advance to partnership, and left to become an associate attorney at a law firm in New York named Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP.[5] She worked at Kasowitz briefly.

She moved from private practice to the United States Department of Justice as a federal prosecutor. She was a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice during the Bush and Obama administrations, specializing in the enforcement of voting rights throughout the country. She was also an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, prosecuting many violent felony offenses including drug trafficking, armed offenses, domestic violence, child abuse and sexual assault.

Coates now works as a CNN senior legal analyst and has a daily radio show on SiriusXM. As she is not currently a practicing lawyer, she placed herself on inactive status with the Office of Lawyer Registration at the Minnesota Supreme Court.[6]

Writing

As her expertise with legal issues grew, Coates began writing features and offering research to major publications, such as The Washington Post and the Boston Herald.

Her first book was published in January 2016, a legal guide titled You have the Right: A Constitutional Guide to Policing the Police.[7]

Personal life

Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota,[8] Coates resides in Washington, D.C. with her husband and two children.[8]

References
  1. "Laura Coates". The George Washington University. Archived from the original on August 24, 2018. Retrieved August 25, 2018.
    - "Meet the GWU Professor Who May Be the Next Host of Jeopardy". Washingtonian. August 2018. Retrieved August 25, 2018.
  2. Polus, Sarah (August 1, 2018). "'How could you not do it?' Meet the CNN analyst Alex Trebek named as a potential 'Jeopardy!' host replacement". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
  3. "Laura G. Coates". Martindale.
  4. "Copyright with Laura Coates of Faegre and Benson". TimeScape Media.
  5. "The National Law Journal". Facebook.
  6. "Attorney Detail". Minnesota Judicial Branch.
  7. "You Have the Right: A Constitutional Guide to Policing the Police". Amazon. Retrieved November 8, 2020.
  8. "ABOUT LAURA COATES". Laura Coates. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
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