About Will
Will Blackton graduated from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill with a J.D. He arrived in practice carrying a federal clerkship on his resume and an interest in courtroom work.
After law school he spent a year as a law clerk at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa in 2015. That experience put him inside the federal courthouse. It offered a close look at civil procedure, evidentiary rulings and the tempo of trial courts.
He started his own firm in 2016, operating as Blackton Law PLLC. The move was a quick shift from clerking to running a law practice. Two years later, in 2018, he joined Boerema Blackton LLP as a partner. The transition to partnership followed a period of building a caseload and handling matters that ranged from trial preparation to appellate briefing.
Blackton is admitted to practice in North Carolina and is also admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He maintains an active membership in the State Bar of North Carolina. Those admissions reflect work spanning state trial courts and federal appellate matters.
Colleagues describe him as methodical in court preparation and deliberate in written advocacy. His background includes courtroom appearances and filings in federal and state venues. The combination of a federal clerkship, solo practice experience and later work at a partnership gives his practice several practical strands. He has handled pretrial motions, discovery disputes and appellate briefs.
He has balanced private practice demands with the rhythms of appellate deadlines. That balance shows in how he approaches case management and client communication. He is comfortable briefing complex issues and arguing them before judges at the trial and appellate levels.
In 2026 he continues to practice law through Boerema Blackton LLP. He focuses his practice on litigation and appellate matters in North Carolina and before the Fourth Circuit.
