Laure Beccuau began her career as a judicial auditor (trainee magistrate) in January 1984.[2] After two years of training at the French National School for the Judiciary, she was appointed substitute prosecutor of the Republic near the court of Rouen from 1 January 1986.[3]
She was appointed first substitute prosecutor of the Republic in Chalon-sur-Saône in June 1993. She was appointed deputy prosecutor of the Republic in Lille in November 1998, then deputy prosecutor of the Republic in Versailles from 1 September 2002. She was appointed, out of hierarchy, deputy prosecutor of the Republic in Bobigny in August 2010. She was appointed prosecutor of the Republic near the court of Nîmes from 1 January 2013. She was appointed prosecutor of the Republic near the court of Créteil from 1 December 2016.
Succeeding Rémy Heitz [fr],[1] she was appointed prosecutor of the Republic near the Paris Judicial Court from 20 September 2021. She becomes the first woman to head the Paris public prosecutor's office.[4]