Brett Yorke

Brett Yorke is a Partner of the Law Office of Ball & Yorke. Brett represents individuals in a variety of civil claims including catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, products liability, and wage and hour matters.

For Brett, the legal profession always felt like his calling. Growing up and learning about his great grandfather’s participation in the union strikes at the turn of the 20th century instilled in Brett the importance of worker and consumer protections. This led Brett to pursue a career that enabled him to advocate for people, not work on behalf of big corporations.

Brett graduated from San Diego State University with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Cultural Anthropology. During his time in San Diego, Brett volunteered for numerous charitable and political organizations. In his senior year, Brett worked for Democrat Marty Block in his successful state assembly campaign for San Diego’s 78th district.

Brett attended University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California. During his first year, Brett was a finalist in the annual Benjamin Frantz First-Year Mock Trial competition and participated in McGeorge’s summer law program taught by Justice Kennedy on Comparative Politics at the University of Salzburg in Salzburg, Austria. 

In his third year, Brett was selected to participate in the highly coveted Federal Public Defender program. This clinic allowed Brett to represent indigent individuals charged with federal misdemeanors in federal court. It was here Brett honed his litigation skills and cemented his love for the law and belief in providing a voice for those in need.

After graduating from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law with a concentration in Trial Advocacy, Brett returned to Ventura County to represent individuals against big insurance companies, drug companies, and medical device manufacturers. 

Since 2013, Brett has handled complex factual cases involving trucking collisions, auto collisions, industrial injuries, wage and hour violations, product liability actions, recreational sporting injuries, and multiple other types of serious injury and wrongful death cases. Brett has recovered millions of dollars on behalf of injured individuals through trial, arbitration, and mediation.

Admitted to practice

• California
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
• U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Education

• University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Juris Doctorate with certificate in Trial Advocacy
• San Diego State University, BA in Political Science with a minor in Cultural Anthropology

Memberships

• Consumer Attorney Association of Los Angeles, CAALA
• The American Association for Justice, AAJ
• Ventura County Trial Lawyers, VCTLA