Yet, of the 850 odd clients who have passed through its doors, only around 30% stay drug free, admits Somers.
Niveen's lawyer acknowledged that she had come to the attention of social services for "very legitimate reasons," but since then it had become "a case about clashing personalities, about odd clients, about different expectations, about different views of reality".
It can afford to subordinate investment banking to its wealth-management customers and the odd corporate client.
Their schedule might include working five nights a week in a brothel, seeing the odd private client, and creating a nest of coffee and papers in their lounge while they tap out versions of a chapter for their PhD.
Some breaches of rules and regulations are more serious than the odd weakness or two, client money for instance.
I've been in the awful position of having to liquidate a client's odd lots into a poor market when finding good bids is impossible and markdowns run as high as four points per bond.
They take ridiculous calls from clients at odd hours and find a way to make themselves available when needed.
In terms of their social risk environment, the only significant difference was that compared to HIV-negative women, HIV-positive women were significantly more likely to report often or always injecting drugs with clients (Odds ratio [OR]: 2.58).
ODD REQUEST: I had a client that requested not to be addressed verbally.
"They're odd," he said of his clients, with an affectionate smile.
