Defense counsel in the trial of three ex-Dewey & LeBoeuf executives pressed their argument Thursday that many of the accounting adjustments made by former firm employees were appropriate. The prosecution has sought to portray those adjustments as acts of fraud.

On Thursday, Bryan Cave partner Austin Campriello confronted accusations that his client, former Dewey & LeBoeuf executive director Stephen DiCarmine, had been sent a list of allegedly false accounting adjustments.