NBC News Taps Guthrie as Chief Legal Analyst

Image via WikipediaThirty-nine-year-old Savannah Guthrie is the Today Show's new chief legal analyst.

Guthrie, who joined NBC News in 2007 and is the former co-host of MSNBC's  Daily Rundown.  She is a former litigator and a magna cum laude graduate of  the Georgetown University Law Center.

She succeeds ABC Legal Analyst and Mediaite mogul Dan Abrams.