About
Skyler
In addition to various leadership roles during law school, Skyler acquired practical legal experience. She worked as a student in Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women and was selected as a Squire Patton Boggs Sustained Impact Racial Justice Fellow. She also served as a research assistant to former Senior Associate Dean Dr. Lolita Buckner Inniss and completed both a Judicial Internship and Externship in the Northern District of Texas.
Prior to joining Figari + Davenport, Skyler gained valuable experience at a Texas-based firm, where she focused on advising on qualified and nonqualified retirement plans, fringe benefits, and welfare plans. She also provided guidance on ERISA compliance, employee benefits, and executive compensation in the context of corporate mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings.
In addition to various leadership roles during law school, Skyler acquired practical legal experience. She worked as a student in Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women and was selected as a Squire Patton Boggs Sustained Impact Racial Justice Fellow. She also served as a research assistant to former Senior Associate Dean Dr. Lolita Buckner Inniss and completed both a Judicial Internship and Externship in the Northern District of Texas.
Prior to joining Figari + Davenport, Skyler gained valuable experience at a Texas-based firm, where she focused on advising on qualified and nonqualified retirement plans, fringe benefits, and welfare plans. She also provided guidance on ERISA compliance, employee benefits, and executive compensation in the context of corporate mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings.
- JD, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, cum laude, 2022
President, Black Law Students Association, 2020-2022
Notes Editor, Science & Technology Law Review, 2021-2022
Lord Chief Baroness, Barristers Honorary Student Service Organization, 2021-2022
Student Representative, Dedman School of Law Dean Search Committee
3L Representative, Student Bar Association
Student Representative, Honor Code Revision Committee
Student Representative, Dean’s Diversity Council
Recipient, Professor Bill Bridge Award for the Outstanding 1L, 2019-2020
Recipient, J.L. Turner Legal Association Foundation Scholarship, 2020
Recipient, Frank & Debbie Branson Trial Advocacy Scholarship, 2021 (Awarded to student with highest grade in Trial Advocacy)
Recipient, Sarah McQuillen Tran Award, 2022 (Awarded to two graduating 3Ls by SMU Law faculty for demonstrated excellence in leadership and service)
Recipient, Dean’s Scholarship
- BS, Howard University, cum laude, 2015
Epsilon Tau Sigma Honor Society
Howard University Volleyball Team
- State Bar of Texas
- Co-Author: Slavery and the Postbellum University: The Case of SMU, 74 SMU L. REV. 723 (2021) (co-authored with former SMU Dedman Law Senior Assoc. Dean, Lolita Buckner Inniss)
- Author: All Aboard the Momnibus: Will Congress’ Proposed Legislative Package Help Drive Down Black Maternal Mortality Rates?, 24 SMU SCI. & TECH. L.R. 413 (2021)