Attorney Grievance Commission v. Basinger

This attorney discipline proceeding involves a lawyer who mailed to his client letters containing egregiously unprofessional language in which the lawyer called his client, among other things, “A TRUE C[* *]T[.]”

Carl Stephen Basinger (“Basinger”), Respondent, a member of the Bar of Maryland, and his sister-in-law, Rosina Keys (“Keys”), entered into an attorney-client relationship. After learning that Keys had denied that she had retained him, Basinger mailed to Keys letters in which he called Keys “A TRUE C[* *]T” who had “finally f[* * *]ed up one time too many”; called Keys “a reprehensible…