Kevin Yorn

Kevin Yorn (born July 4, 1965) is an American entertainment attorney who co-founded Morris Yorn Barnes Levine Entertainment Law Firm where he is managing partner.[2]

Kevin Yorn
Born (1965-07-04) July 4, 1965
Alma materTulane University
Muhlenberg College
OccupationFounder and Managing Partner at Morris Yorn Barnes Levine Entertainment Law Firm
Board member ofCedars-Sinai Medical Center, Common Sense Media
Spouse(s)Julie Silverman (m. 1996; div. 2005)
Children1[1]
WebsiteIMDB

Early life

Yorn is an alumnus of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA.[3] He graduated with a Juris Doctor degree from Tulane University Law School. Yorn was admitted to The State Bar of California in 1991.[4] Yorn has collaborated with Tulane University, his alma mater and created funds to promote entertainment and media law at Tulane Law School as well as to support the Gender & Sexuality Studies program in the School of Liberal Arts.[5]

Career

Yorn became a deputy district attorney in L.A. County after graduating from Tulane Law in 1990. He was in the D.A.’s office for five years, working in the Hardcore Gang Investigations Unit.[6] In 2018, Yorn was named one of Hollywood's top power lawyers by Hollywood Reporter.[7]

After the D.A's office, Yorn partnered with Kevin Morris, a lawyer he met through his brother, Rick Yorn. An aspiring writer named Anthony Zuiker asked Yorn for help in escaping a screenwriting contract. Zuiker had an idea to do a show about forensics, which later became CSI, one of the most popular franchises in TV history.

In the summer of 2014, Yorn's firm made a deal with Hulu for three years of South Park reruns, reportedly at a price of more than $80 million, and he helped Zuiker make content deals with YouTube and Yahoo. Yorn also created a joint venture with Warner Bros., Ellen DigitalVentures, to help exploit Ellen DeGeneres’ social media reach as well as her digital video content, games and apps, including "Heads Up!."[8] In 2013, Yorn worked on the deal to renew DeGeneres' talk show through 2016-17.[9]

Yorn will co-produce "Phenomenon," Roseanne Montillo's biography of Betty Robinson, the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field. Frank Marshall, Rob Weisbach and Montillo will also produce the DreamWorks project.[10]

Honors

The Hollywood Reporter named Yorn one of "Hollywood's Top 100 Attorneys" in 2015, 2016, and 2018.[11][12] The Hollywood Reporter also listed Yorn among "America's Top 100 Entertainment Attorneys" in 2013[13] and 2014.[14] Variety included Yorn in the "Entertainment Attorneys Impact List" in 2009 along with the 2012, 2015 and 2017 "Legal Impact Report", a list of the top in-house attorneys, litigators and transactional lawyers in entertainment.

Family

Yorn's brother Pete Yorn is a musician.[15] Yorn's brother, Rick, is a talent manager. The three brothers make up what Nikki Finke calls, "The Yorn Dynasty" [16] The brothers grew up in Montville, New Jersey with their father, Dr. Lawrence Yorn, a dentist who was a captain in the Army, and mother, Joan. Yorn's parents moved to Los Angeles in 2000. Joan Yorn is a receptionist at Kevin Yorn's law firm.[16]

In 1996, he married film producer Julie Silverman in a Jewish ceremony in Tarrytown, New York.[17] They later divorced in 2005.

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References
  1. "Samantha Erica Yorn". 19 May 2000.
  2. "Kevin Yorn". Variety. 2013-12-17. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  3. "Kevin Brett Yorn - #151782". The State Bar Of California. Retrieved 2014-05-01.
  4. "Kevin Brett Yorn #151782 - Attorney Search". members.calbar.ca.gov. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
  5. "Kevin Yorn (L '90) teams with Tulane on entertainment/media law". Tulane University. April 13, 2017.
  6. Tannenbaum, Rob. "Hollywood Dynasty: The Yorn Brothers". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 6 Oct 2014.
  7. "Karl Austen - Power Lawyers 2018: Hollywood's Top 100 Attorneys". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  8. "The Variety Legal Impact Report 2015". Variety. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  9. "Power Lawyers: THR Unveils America's Top 100 Entertainment Attorneys". The Hollywood Reporter. THR. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
  10. Kit, Borys; Lewis, Andy. "DreamWorks Nabs Rights to Inspirational Bio of First Female Olympic Track Medalist". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 20, 2018.
  11. "Power Lawyers 2018: Hollywood's Top 100 Attorneys". The Hollywood Reporter.
  12. "Power Lawyers 2015: Hollywood's Top 100 Attorneys Revealed". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 20, 2018.
  13. "Power Lawyers: THR Unveils America's Top 100 Entertainment Attorneys". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  14. "Power Lawyers 2014: The Complete List A-Z". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  15. "Pete Yorn, Official Site". Pete Yorn. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  16. Tannenbaum, Rob. "Hollywood Dynasty: The Yorn Brothers". Wall Street Journal. WSJ. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
  17. New York Times: "WEDDINGS;Julie Silverman And Kevin Yorn" July 7, 1996
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