The WaLaw Team

Craig Blackmon

Craig is a lawyer and co-founder of WaLaw Realty LLC.
I earned a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s Degree from Columbia University. After working as a public high school teacher for four years, I enrolled in law school and graduated from the University of Washington in 1999.

In 2005, my wife and I sold our house. In the process, I came to appreciate the complicated nature of selling a home and the potential benefit of having legal counsel. At the same time, I was looking for a new direction in my legal career. Soon after, I launched the Law Office of Craig Blackmon, a law practice focused on assisting people with the purchase and sale of residential real estate. In 2006, I was fortunate to meet Marc Holmes, a recent law school graduate looking for a job. I hired Marc as an associate attorney, and things went so well that in 2009 he became my partner in the firm, now called Blackmon Holmes PLLC. That same year, we launched WaLaw Realty.

In addition to building a law practice and WaLaw Realty, I volunteer with the King County Bar Association Neighborhood Legal Clinic, where I provide free legal consultations to residents of King County. As a means of educating the public while also promoting my practice, I contribute regularly to Rain City Guide, a Seattle-area real estate blog. Like most everyone else in this beautiful corner of the country, I enjoy the great outdoors, including snowboarding, biking, and hiking, often followed by savoring a delicious microbrew in a charming mountain tavern.

Marc Holmes

Marc is a lawyer and the designated real estate broker and co-founder of WaLaw Realty LLC. 

My wife, Kim, kids, Spencer & Delaney, and a small family of raccoons, live in the Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle. It’s our own little Mayberry and we love it.  I was born and raised in Oklahoma and started my first business at the age of 10 diving for golf balls in ponds on a public course. We sold ’em for a quarter a piece and made good money doing it.

I came to Seattle in 1992 to attend the University of Washington and graduated four years later with a B.A. in Economics and a healthy appreciation of all things Seattle: grunge, flannel, coffee, and microbrews. My first job out of college was as a beer rep for one of Seattle’s fine microbreweries, the Pyramid Brewery just across from what is now Safeco Field. It was a dream job for a 22-year-old guy: expense account, tickets to every sporting event, and all the beer my friends and I could drink.  That job led to a promotion and move to Texas and ultimately a career in sales, land/home development, and mortgage lending.

Ultimately, I was looking for something different and returned to Seattle to obtain my law degree.  I graduated with honors from Seattle University School of Law in 2006.  I joined Craig’s law firm shortly after graduation and became a partner in January 2009. I’ve handled hundreds of residential transactions, drafted countless legal documents affecting real estate, and litigated real estate disputes and had a blast along the way.