BOGLE & CHANG, LLC

Nikiki T. Bogle is the Managing Partner in the law firm of Bogle & Chang, LLC and Chair of the firm's Immigration, Criminal and Entertainment Practice Groups. Ms. Bogle concentrates her practice on corporate immigration, family immigration, international, human rights, criminal appeals and music matters.

Ms. Bogle's Immigration practice encompasses both business immigration and family immigration. She represents companies, employees, families and individuals in assessing immigration options to live and work in the United States. Her entertainment law practice includes drafting and negotiating management, recording artist, and music publishing agreements.

In addition to her practice in the music industry, Ms. Bogle represents visual artists and literary artists in the protection and exploitation of their intellectual property.  Ms. Bogle concentrates her practice in entertainment, specializing in music law, corporate immigration, international business, human rights and criminal appeals. Her music business practice includes drafting and negotiating management, recording artist, and music publishing agreements. In addition to her practice in the music industry, Ms. Bogle represents visual artists and literary artists in the protection and exploitation of their intellectual property.

Pro Bono Legal Work

Ms. Bogle is also a Pro Bono Child Immigration Attorney with the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children, where she represents unaccompanied immigrant children in removal proceedings before the Department of Homeland Security.

Prior to Bogle & Chang

Ms. Bogle is an experienced litigator who began her legal career as a trial lawyer. Prior to co-founding Bogle & Chang, LLC, she was an Assistant District Attorney in the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office in Boston, Massachusetts. She was a Point Prosecutor for Child Abuse, Domestic Violence and Identity Fraud, in Boston's busiest courts.

She prosecuted thousands of felony and misdemeanor cases including: possession of a firearm, carjacking, drug distribution, aggravated assault and battery and operating under the influence. Ms. Bogle was an Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Attorney General, Criminal Division, in Wilmington, Delaware.

As a criminal prosecutor, she conducted over 100 trials before both juries and judges. Ms. Bogle was also a Pro Bono Immigration Attorney for the Political Asylum Immigration Representation Project in Boston, Massachusetts, where she represented asylum clients in trial and formerly INS administration proceedings.

Beyond Legal Practice

Ms. Bogle is the President and Founder of the Caribbean Education Foundation, Inc. (CEF), a nonprofit organization that provides scholarships to poor children in Jamaica and the Caribbean to attend schools and receive a quality education in the developing world.

In August 2011, she was awarded a New York State Assembly Citation for legal work in assisting immigrants from over 30 countries as the Immigration Chair for Bogle & Chang law firm and her tireless efforts in helping poor children receive access to quality education in the Caribbean as President of the Caribbean Education Foundation.

Bar Leadership

President, Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association 2007-2008 Trustee, Women's Bar Foundation (WBF) - 2011-3013 Strategic Planning Committee, Massachusetts Bar Association Section Counsel, Criminal Law Section, Boston Bar Association Diversity Leadership Committee, Boston Bar Association

Mock Trial Judge, Massachusetts Bar Association

House of Delegates, Massachusetts Bar Association 2007-2008 Criminal Law Section, American Bar Association Professional Associations

She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), ABA Immigration and Naturalization Committee, Latin American & Caribbean Committee, International Law Section (ABA), American Bar Association, Massachusetts Bar Association, Boston Bar Association and Massachusetts Black Women Attorneys.

Outside Legal Community

Ms. Bogle is also active in the community. She is a Big Sister with Big Sister Organization of Greater Boston, serving as a mentor to young girls. She is a member of the Urban League of Greater Boston and ChildReach Inc. Child Sponsors, where she provides educational and nutritional support to a young girl in Haiti for many years.