Christopher Yuhl
Yuhl Carr LLP
Christopher Yuhl is a personal injury, mass torts and wrongful death trial lawyer with Yuhl Carr LLP in Marina del Rey, California. J.D., University of San Diego School of Law (1987).
Meet Christopher
Christopher P. Yuhl is a trial lawyer with Yuhl Carr LLP in Marina del Rey, California, where he handles complex personal injury, wrongful death, mass tort and professional negligence cases. His mass tort work has involved defective drugs, medical devices and rail accidents.
A Los Angeles native, Yuhl earned a journalism degree from the University of Colorado in 1983 and worked as an assistant sports information director and freelance sportswriter before law school. He received his law degree from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1987, winning the American Jurisprudence Award in Torts and competing on the school’s National Trial Team. He began his career trying civil cases at the Los Angeles defense firm Haight, Dickson, Brown & Bonesteel and also prosecuted criminal cases pro bono for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office.
Yuhl joined his brother Eric in plaintiff practice in 1992. In 2012 he was appointed to the leadership group of a national medical device litigation, and in 2015 that group won an $11 million federal jury verdict in Atlanta in the first bellwether trial against the manufacturer. He holds an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, has been listed as a California Super Lawyer every year since 2006 and serves on the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Judicial Appointment Selection Committee.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- J.D., University of San Diego School of Law (1987)
- B.S., Journalism, University of Colorado (1983)
Practice Areas
- American Association for Justice
- Los Angeles County Bar Association (Judicial Appointment Selection Committee)
- The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 Trial Lawyers
- California Super Lawyers (every year since 2006)
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Rating
- American Jurisprudence Award in Torts, University of San Diego School of Law
- $11 Million Jury Verdict: In November 2015, Yuhl and his leadership group won the verdict from a federal jury in Atlanta in the first bellwether trial against a hip implant manufacturer.
- $3 Million+ Settlement: Recovered for the parents of two 21-year-olds killed on Pacific Coast Highway because of a dangerous road design; the settlement led to reconfiguration of the PCH and Sunset Boulevard intersection.
- Seven-Figure Jury Verdict: A 1993 verdict for an elderly client, described as the first case to successfully prove traumatic activation of post-polio syndrome.
- $1.7 Million Recovery: Obtained in 1990 in the "flying triangle landslide" case while at Haight, Dickson, Brown & Bonesteel.
- $340 Million Settlement: Final settlement in the Wright Medical hip implant litigation, listed among his case settlements.
- $240 Million Settlement: First group settlement of Wright metal-on-metal hip lawsuits, listed among his case settlements.
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