[3][4] Yorn is an alumnus of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA.[5] He graduated with a Juris Doctor degree from Tulane University Law School in 1990 and was admitted to The State Bar of California in 1991.
[6] 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.
[9] Aspiring writer Anthony Zuiker asked Yorn for help in escaping a screenwriting contract so that he could go on to create the television series CSI, which premiered in 2000.
[10][4][13][14][15][16][17][18] In 2021, Yorn co-founded private equity investment firm Broadlight Holdings with his brother Rick and David Dorfman.
His parents moved to Los Angeles in 2000, and his mother Joan became a receptionist at Yorn Barnes Levine.