Pon Nokham

Biography

Chaleunphone Nokham is a Practitioner in Residence (PIR) for the Juvenile Defenders Clinic (JDC), and private attorney specializing in criminal defense, criminal appeals, and immigration matters. As PIR of JDC, she supervises S.J.C. 3:03 student-attorneys who represent young adults charged with criminal offenses before the Boston Juvenile Court. She has taught Interviewing and Counseling and Education Law as an Adjunct Instructor. In private practice, she represents clients criminally charged before district and superior courts, and post-conviction, she represents clients before the Appeals Court and Supreme Judicial Court. She also represents non-U.S. citizen clients before the Immigration Court, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Administrative Appeals Office, Board of Immigration Appeals and Department of State’s various U.S. Consulates. Prior to entering private practice, she was a Civil Rights Litigation Counsel for the Department of Correction, where she litigated tort and civil rights cases before the state and federal courts. After graduating from Suffolk University Law School, she served as an Assistant District Attorney with the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office.

Bar Admittance

• MA
• First Circuit Court of Appeals
• USDC
• SCOTUS