A Florida attorney’s office, a gun, some cocaine, a fight between an older lawyer and a younger assistant who might have had a romance — it all sounds so 1980s Miami.
But this played out on July 31, 2024, in Pasco County, and some of the violence was captured by a cellphone. The video already played a role in the criminal charges against now-suspended Land O’ Lakes attorney Peter Berkman.
After Berkman was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill and larceny petit theft from $100 to $750, the Florida Bar sought and received his interim felony suspension of the financial services and real estate lawyer…