Justin M. Bahorich

Justin M. Bahorich is a plaintiff-side employment attorney with HKM Employment Attorneys LLP who serves clients through the firm’s Philadelphia and Pittsburgh offices. He represents employees in complex workplace disputes involving discrimination, retaliation, harassment, hostile work environments, disability accommodations, wage and hour violations, ERISA violations, and wrongful termination. His practice includes individual claims as well as class and collective actions, with litigation experience across federal and state courts and alternative dispute forums.

Justin earned a J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law, where he received the CALI Award in Trial Advocacy and competed in the Lone Star Classic National Mock Trial Competition. He earned an undergraduate degree in English, with a minor in Economics, from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, graduating magna cum laude. He is admitted in Pennsylvania, all three federal district courts in Pennsylvania, and the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Justin has served as lead counsel through the full litigation process, including initial case evaluation, discovery, depositions, dispositive motions, mediation, arbitration, and trial. Before joining HKM, he spent more than five years as a partner at a small plaintiff-side firm in Pittsburgh, where he maintained an active litigation docket and supervised attorneys, law clerks, discovery professionals, and paralegals. His experience includes employment claims before courts, administrative bodies, mediators, and arbitrators.

Justin M. Bahorich focuses on helping employees address serious workplace disputes through detailed case development and litigation strategy. His employment practice areas include discrimination, employment contracts, FMLA claims, hostile work environment, non-competes, retaliation, severance, sexual harassment, wage and overtime disputes, whistleblower claims, and wrongful termination. His background in trial advocacy and plaintiff-side employment litigation supports representation from early evaluation through negotiated resolution, dispositive motions, arbitration, or trial when a dispute remains contested.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, HKM Employment Attorneys LLP
• Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association

Licensed State

• Pennsylvania

Education

• Duquesne University School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  Bachelor’s degree in English, minor in Economics

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