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Whether it's rife, I don't know, but it happens and it happens too often. But it seems that the legal professions attract those who are sexual predators - and their characteristics are so obvious. They remind me of Rex Mottram, in Waugh's 'Brideshead Revisited', of whom his wife says:

'He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.'

I can think of a number of solicitors, for whom I've worked, for whom that description fits to a tee!