Education
Kevin Yorn graduated from Tulane University Law School. Yorn is an alumnus of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Kevin Yorn graduated from Tulane University Law School. Yorn is an alumnus of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Yorn became a deputy district attorney in Los Angeles County after graduating from Tulane Law in 1990. He was in the Doctorate.A.’s office for five years, working in the Hardcore Gang Investigations Unit. 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 Computer Society of India, one of the most popular franchises in television 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 Brothers, Ellen DigitalVentures, to help exploit Ellen DeGeneres’ social media reach as well as her digital video content, games and apps, including "Heads Up!." In 2013, Yorn worked on the deal to renew DeGeneres" talk show through 2016-2017.
Frank Marshall, Rob Weisbach and Montillo will also produce the DreamWorks project Yorn"s brother Pete Yorn is a musician.
Yorn"s brother, Rick, is a talent manager.
Yorn"s parents moved to Los Angeles in 2000. Joan Yorn is a receptionist at Kevin Yorn"s law firm.
The Hollywood Reporter named Yorn one of "Hollywood"s Top 100 Attorneys" in 2015. The Hollywood Reporter also listed Yorn among "America"s Top 100 Entertainment Attorneys" in 2013 and 2014. Variety included Yorn in the 2015 Legal Impact Report, a list of the top in-house attorneys, litigators and transactional lawyers in entertainment.
