Christina Yarnell is litigation attorney who works directly with Managing Partner Brad Beckworth on the Firm’s Strategic Consulting and Crisis Management Team. The Team leverages the Firm’s decades of experience in high-stakes litigation and dispute resolution to offer Clients a wide variety of resources such as strategic planning, team building, public relations strategy and response, dispute resolution, crisis management and, if necessary, trial representation.
Christina assists our clients by utilizing the experience gained from her prior role as the Firm’s CTO and her work at a public strategies firm. Additionally, her work with Brad Beckworth on several critical high-profile litigation matters helps demonstrate the Firm’s ability to transition our leadership for our consulting clients from the conference room to the courtroom when trial becomes necessary. Representative matters include:
- Zac Brown: Part of the trial team that won a high-profile federal breach-of-contract verdict in Atlanta, Georgia, protecting the country music icon’s commercial assets and business interests from a former employee’s breach of contract and misappropriation of confidential information.
- Travis County wrongful death: Part of the team that secured the largest single-person wrongful death recovery in Travis County, Texas history.
- Camp Mystic: A key member of the team representing the family of Cile Steward and the “Heaven’s 27” families following the July 2025 Guadalupe River floods. Working pro bono, Christina helped win a critical temporary injunction blocking the camp from altering evidence or reopening. The Firm took a 360- degree approach to this case by deploying the unique use of a temporary injunction hearing to get the facts out to the public, working with State leaders and regulators to help ensure the camp did not obtain a license to reopen, and assisting on regulatory efforts and providing key evidence and helping prepare testimony for legislative investigatory hearings. The team continues preparing for trial and counseling the families.
In June 2025, the State Bar of Texas honored Christina with the Frank Scurlock Award, given annually to the state’s top pro bono attorney, for her work protecting victims of labor trafficking. In 2023, Christina co-founded the Central Texas Federal Bench Bar Conference with partner Trey Duck. Now a sold-out annual event, it draws judges, legal scholars, and hundreds of attorneys.
Christina earned her J.D. from the University of Texas and her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan.
