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Mr. Laughlin, Evergreen Energy ’s first General Counsel, possesses a 30-plus year legal background in the energy sector, having served in senior roles with El Paso/Coastal, Ladd Petroleum, Phillips Petroleum, and Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP. Mr. Laughlin began his career in the 1970s with Phillips Petroleum. During the late 1970s through the 1980s, Mr. Laughlin was associated with Ladd Petroleum Corporation, General Electric Company’s energy subsidiary, where he was Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary. While at Coastal/El Paso, in addition to managing a large law department, Mr. Laughlin was the lead attorney for numerous acquisitions of oil and gas properties and, during 2002-2003, the lead attorney for over $2 billion of divestitures of various properties throughout the United States and Canada. Most recently, during his tenure at Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP, Mr. Laughlin provided advice and counsel to various public and private companies on a wide variety of legal matters pertaining to exploration, production, transportation, marketing, processing and state and federal regulations.
Mr. Laughlin is admitted to the bars of Colorado, Texas, and Wyoming. | 