James A. Young

Shareholder

Jim Young is a co-founder of Christie, Pabarue, Mortensen and Young, a member of the firm's Board of Directors and Chair of the firm’s Health and Life Sciences Group. He served as the firm's Managing Shareholder from 1992 to 2003. Mr. Young began practicing law in Philadelphia in 1972 upon conclusion of his Pennsylvania Supreme Court judicial clerkship. During his 37 years of practice, Mr. Young has litigated an extraordinary variety of cases, including frequent defense of catastrophic personal injury claims as a result of professional liability, corporate or individual negligence and product defect claims. He has handled thousands of toxic tort claims, represented hundreds of physicians and numerous hospitals in defense of professional negligence actions, defended personal and corporate defamation and trade libel claims, including false advertising, Lanham Act claims and anti-counterfeiting, and defended both a wide range of product manufacturers and individuals in brain injury, electrocution and burn cases and a variety of construction claims involving personal injury and economic loss. Among the numerous commercial claims that he has handled are a wide variety of insurance coverage cases, securities, antitrust (criminal and civil), financial fraud, RICO, and complicated ERISA claims. He has successfully defended six class action claims filed in both the state and federal courts.

Mr. Young has tried well over 80 cases to verdict before juries and tried many other cases to judges only. He has been selected as appellate counsel in arguments to the highest state court in Pennsylvania and numerous Circuit Courts across the United States. Mr. Young has also appeared on briefs submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States.

In recognition of his experience and accomplishments, Mr. Young has been elected to fellowship in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, admission to which is gained only upon recommendation of judges, opposing counsel and peers and elected to fellowship in the Amercian College of Trial Lawyers, membership in which is limited to once percent of the total lawyer population of the United States and Canada. He has been invited frequently to lecture about evidence and trial techniques to bar association and CLE groups, and he has written on related topics, recently emphasizing the preclusion of “junk science” from the courtroom. Mr. Young has also lectured to groups concerned with pharmaceutical and antitrust claims. He has worked with expert witnesses throughout the United States and is frequently requested to represent some of the most distinguished physicians in the eastern United States.

Admitted to Practice:

• Pennsylvania
• New Jersey
• United States Supreme Court
• United States Courts of Appeals for the First, Third, Fourth, Seventh and Eighth Circuits
• United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Pennsylvania
• United States District Court for the District of New Jersey

• Professional Liability
• Professional Responsibility
• Health and Health Care Law
• Commercial Litigation
• Intellectual Property Law
• Personal Injury – Plaintiff and Defense
• Defamation and Privacy/Lanham Act – Plaintiff and Defense
• Products Liability
• Toxic Torts
• Employment Retirement Income and Security Act (ERISA) – Employee and Employer
• Insurance Law, Including Insurance Coverage
• Appeals
• Alternative Dispute Resolution

• Court-Appointed Mediator for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• American, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations; Former Chair of the Federal Courts Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association

• Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers
• Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
  
• Pennsylvania Super Lawyers (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)

• How to Daubert-Proof Your Expert Witnesses, Leader's Product Liability Law and Strategy, Volume XVII, No. 6, December, 1998, pp. 1-3
• Daubert Has Made Lawyers Act Professionally, National Law Journal, Monday, January 11, 1999, p. A29
• Expert Testimony After Daubert and Kumho: Keeping Junk Science Out and Getting Good Science In -- The Attorney's Role, The Economist's Advocate, LLC, Antitrust on Trial, Developing New Solutions for Current Challenges,
  October, 1999
• Expert Testimony - A Practical Approach to Keeping Their Junk Out and Getting Your Science In, Andrews Pharmaceutical Litigation, 1999

Tel: 215-587-1625
Fax: 215-587-1699
Email: JAYoung@cpmy.com
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Education:
J.D., 1970, The Dickinson School of Law
Dickinson Law Review, 1968-1970

B.S. (Chemistry), 1967, University of Delaware