Panoramic: Automotive and Mobility 2025
Paige Laborde
Counsel Global Regulatory
Languages
English
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Paige Gallaspy Laborde helps companies navigate high-stakes health, safety, and environmental matters, particularly in the aftermath of workplace incidents and environmental releases. She advises on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and state enforcement, conducts privileged internal investigations, and counsels on compliance programs that withstand regulatory and public scrutiny. Her work spans the chemical, energy, manufacturing, distribution, and transportation sectors, where she integrates technical know-how with legal strategy to guide clients through crisis response, regulatory negotiations, and long-term compliance planning.
Paige has deep experience with OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) standard and the Clean Air Act’s Risk Management Program (RMP). She regularly represents clients facing multi-agency scrutiny after major accidents, including OSHA, EPA, and Department of Justice (DOJ) investigations and Chemical Safety Board (CSB) inquiries. She has worked with companies in connection with most of the major U.S. industrial accidents of the past decade, including refinery explosions, chemical releases, and high-profile workplace fatalities. Recent matters also include leading a multi-refinery wastewater compliance review tied to a DOJ criminal case, advising a global manufacturer on pretreatment and hazardous waste enforcement, and counseling an aviation client on FAA–OSHA jurisdictional overlap in confined space entry.
She also represents companies before agencies such as the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), and state and local regulators, and has led industry advocacy on reforms to the PSM and RMP regulations.
Representative experience
Represented a Fortune 50 chemical manufacturer in investigations by the CSB, OSHA, the EPA, and other agencies into a four-fatality accident resulting from the release of toxic chemicals.*
Defend and advise clients during Chemical Safety Board (CSB) investigations, successfully managing the investigation to ensure an accurate portrayal of the incident and the company's processes.*
Represented a global energy company in connection with an explosion at a refining facility that resulted in federal and state regulatory agency investigations.*
Represented a multinational automotive manufacturer in an enterprise-wide compliance assurance and safety review.*
Represented a global energy company in connection with an explosion at refining facility that resulted in federal and state regulatory agency investigations.*
Led a comprehensive multi-media inspection at a petrochemical facility conducted by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).*
Defended a client against OSHA citations involving a crane accident and related civil litigation.*
Engaged by clients to advocate for rulemaking changes during EPA's RMP regulation and Washington State's PSM regulation.*
Represented a multinational oil and gas services company in a DOJ investigation into an offshore incident involving multiple fatalities.*
Represented a supermajor in a multi-agency investigation following a refinery fire.*
Represented a national utility company in implementation of a process safety management program.*
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
Credentials
Education
- J.D., Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2014
- B.S., Tulane University, 2010
Bar admissions and qualifications
- Texas