Sarasota law firm hits 100 employees, readies for more growth

Evan Berlin’s biggest professional risk, launching his own firm 20 years ago, has grown into a big success.

By Mark Gordon
| 5:00 a.m. December 19, 2023
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Evan Berlin founded Berlin Patten Ebling in 2004.

Manatee-Sarasota

If Sarasota real estate attorney Evan Berlin switched specialties to trademark or patent law he might make a bundle, considering how many times he uses one line.

This is when one of his colleagues, from lawyers to paralegals, strolls into his office with a situation. “When people come in here and say ‘I have a problem,’ I turn it back on them and say ‘you don’t have a problem, you have a learning opportunity.’”