Zoe Moskowitz and Amy Cu sit for a portrait at their office in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 12. Justin L. Stewart / Special to the Daily Journal
Labor and employment attorney Amy M. Cu was the first in her family to graduate from university, but it wasn’t until her father lost a job he’d worked at for 30 years that she decided to become a lawyer.
“It was a very, very difficult time for my family, and it was at that point I realized how critical having a job is to one’s identity and self-worth and dignity,” Cu recalled. Her feelings were an echo of Sophocles’ aphorism, “... (continued)