Joseph Hornack

PHONE

412-268-4177

OFFICE

GSIA - Tepper School of Business - Room 102

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Business Law

EDUCATION

Rutgers University - JD - 1981
Miami University - BA - 1978

USEFUL LINKS

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BIOGRAPHY

Jay Hornack is a partner in the firm of Healey & Hornack. Mr. Hornack concentrates his private law practice in the area of employee rights and benefits. Specifically, he represents employees in claims involving workers'' compensation, Social Security disability benefits, unemployment compensation, employment discrimination, wrongful discharge and pension benefits. Mr. Hornack graduated from Rutgers-Newark School of Law in 1981 where he won the J. Skelley Wright Prize for contributions to civil rights, civil liberties and human affairs. He graduated with honors from Miami University in 1978. Mr. Hornack is a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association and the National Organization of Social Security Claimant Representatives. He is a referral attorney for the American Association of University Women Legal Advocacy Fund and Lambda Legal, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the Disability Rights Network of Pennsylvania and Chair of that organization’s Legal Committee. In 1983 Mr. Hornack was appointed Special Counsel by Pittsburgh City Council to defend its plant closing notification ordinance. Since 1986 he has served as the Solicitor for the Steel Valley Authority, a joint municipal authority funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry''s Strategic Early Warning Network that is dedicated to the retention of existing industry and the development of new industry in Western and Central Pennsylvania. Since 1994 he has served as a hearing officer for the Pennsylvania Office of Vocational Rehabilitation. Since 1987 Mr. Hornack has also taught evening courses at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University. Currently he is an adjunct professor of business, law and ethics at Carnegie Mellon University''s School of Industrial Administration as well as an adjunct professor of disability discrimination law at the University of Pittsburgh''s School of Law.

COURSES TAUGHT

• BUS SOCIETY & ETHICS (70332) 2015 Section: A, B
  2014 Section: A, B

• Business, Society and Ethics (70332) 2012 Section: A, A
  2011 Section: A, B, C
  2010 Section: B, B
  2009 Section: B, B
  2008 Section: B, B
  2007 Section: B, B
  2006 Section: B, B