Valerie Dickerson

Valerie is the Legal Entity Management leader for Deloitte’s Legal Business Services practice. Her goal is to enhance corporate governance practices and relieve corporate secretarial burdens for her clients by collaborating to make technology-enabled leading practices a reality. Valerie also leads Clients & Markets for Legal Business Services, leveraging Deloitte’s global multi-disciplinary capabilities to assist legal department executives to operationalize certain multi-stakeholder functions, including contract lifecycle management, legal operations, and legal entity management.

Since 2012, Valerie has served as the Multistate Tax practice leader for the Washington National Tax (WNT) office of Deloitte Tax LLP and competency leader for Deloitte Tax’s Multistate Tax Controversy Resolution Services and Multistate Jurisdictional Technical leads. The WNT-Multistate practice advises clients regarding the state and local aspects of transactions, restructurings, mergers & acquisitions, and filing positions, and represents clients in controversies with the state tax authorities. She also serves clients as a Lead Tax pcartner and lead Multistate partner, focusing primarily on technology, media, health plans, life sciences, and retail. She has been a frequent speaker and author on multistate taxation matters including state implications of tax reform, nexus issues, the intersection of state and international tax matters, apportionment, unitary taxation, and California franchise tax subjects.

Valerie received her JD from Georgia State University College of Law and her BA in accounting from Emory University, Goizueta School of Business. She received the 2017 Benjamin F. Miller Award from the California State Bar Taxation Section for her contributions in state and local taxation. Valerie chairs Deloitte’s National Multistate Symposium in collaboration with the Florida State Bar as well as the National Multistate Symposium-West. She serves on the Tax Section Committee of the California Chamber of Commerce, is an alternate board member of the California Taxpayers Association, and an advisor to and former Executive Committee member to the California Lawyers Association Tax Section (former California State Bar). Prior to coming to Deloitte, she acquired several years of experience at another Big Four firm and at an oil and gas company.