Skyler Dykes focuses her practice on complex transactional and tax-related matters. She joined WilmerHale as a summer associate in 2024 and returned as an associate in 2025.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Dykes served as a legal intern with the Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston, where she drafted legal memoranda on exempt organization and estate planning, as well as governing documents for cultural organizations seeking to gain tax-exempt status. During law school, Ms. Dykes was a student attorney for the Washington University Low Income Taxpayer Clinic. In this role, she assisted low-income taxpayers with IRS disputes. 

Publications

  • “Taxing Cultural Endowments,” Washington University Law Review 102, No. 4 (2025) 

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Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, 2025

      Articles Editor and Staff Editor, Washington University Law Review

      Vice President, Tax Law Society

      First Prize, 2024 Tannenwald Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship Writing Competition

      Graduate Policy Scholar, Clark-Fox and Social Policy Institutes

    • MA, Musicology, Washington University in St. Louis, 2025

    • BA, Music, French, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2020

      Honors and distinction
  • Admissions

    • Massachusetts

  • Languages

    • French

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