Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Beatrice Butchko stepped down from a case over attorney fees and costs, hours after a litigant filed a verified disqualification motion.

Litigant Sarah Lazow claimed in a disqualification motion that her former attorney, Robert Zarco, a partner at Zarco Einhorn Salkowski & Brito in Fort Lauderdale, allegedly pitched his legal services by boasting he had a “very close relationship” with Butchko, who might allegedly “role play as angry on the record.”

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