David Laplante

Background

About David Laplante

Experienced Director of Real Estate and Attorney, with a demonstrated history of successfully managing multiple work groups and teams including Union Pacific's Real Estate Public Projects group responsible for $40M+ in new revenues from all the complex public and private infrastructure construction projects and associated real estate transactions across 23 states and Union Pacific’s commercial signboard and subsurface Mineral rights portfolios.Prior to Union Pacific, David managed teams of real estate professionals and in-house real estate attorneys; and worked as a litigator in large and mid-sized law firms and in the non-profit sphere as a civil rights attorney. David has strong leadership skills managing large and divergent work groups as well as strong transactional real estate and project management skills. He also successful manages outside counsel in condemnation, title and mineral rights litigation across the country.David is a thought leader and past innovative President of very active UP Vets 501(3)c Employee Resource Group (ERG) dedicated to supporting the wholistic health of over military veteran Railroad employees.