Juliana is licensed to practice law in the states of California and New York. She has been a practicing member of the New York Bar since 2000 and the California Bar since 2006. She is conversant in Cantonese and Mandarin.

Born in China and raised in New York, Juliana Zhu realized her passion for law while a pre-med major during her junior year of college. Inspired by a passionate friend who was pre-law, Juliana set aside her progress toward taking the MCAT to pursue taking the LSAT instead.

Upon graduation from St. John’s University School of Law in New York City, Juliana was recruited to her first job with Furey & Furey, P.C. a prominent Long Island civil defense firm.

From there, Juliana went on to practice federal and state law with The Law Firm of Richard S. Bonfiglio, Esq. in Brooklyn before moving to sunny Los Angeles in 2003. For the next three years, Juliana practiced intellectual property, securities and business law until she accepted a position with prestigious L.A. law firm, O’Melveny & Myers, LLP. There, Juliana served on multi-billion dollar litigation cases involving the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission in the areas of business, intellectual property, securities and real estate litigation.

A few years later, Juliana felt led to leave the corporate world of law to give her life to pro bono law as a Volunteer Attorney for the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST), an issue of which Juliana is passionate about. There, she provided innovative direct legal services to survivors of human trafficking; interviewed human trafficking survivors for client intakes; drafted T-Visa and U-Visa applications; researched, analyzed and drafted legal memoranda in immigration law, civil and criminal procedure; served as victim witness advocate in criminal and civil proceedings; worked in cooperation with law enforcement agencies and as legal advocate for victims; and provided individualized technical consultation to nonprofit organizations working on T-Visa cases.

After almost two years of dedicating her life to CAST, Juliana moved on to start her own firm to give her more time to dedicate to individual cases and the freedom to volunteer for the many important causes that she supports. At the Law Office of Juliana Zhu, Esq., Juliana provides legal service in business law, contracts, immigration law and estate planning.

In addition, within the last twelve years, Juliana has been providing pro-bono legal service to anti-human trafficking organizations such as Project Hope at the Dream Center and NightLight International – Los Angeles, as well as low income families through Christian Legal Aid of Los Angeles.

Juliana serves as the Cancer InCytes‘ Senior Editor of Culture and Policy. Cancer InCytes is a new biennial online magazine on cancer research and social justice issues.