In her second day of testimony in the fraud trial against Dewey & LeBoeuf's former top executives, Dianne Cascino, who was the firm's director of revenue support, said Thursday that many people at Dewey questioned the accounting entries she said she made to boost the firm's bottom line.

Those entries, Cascino previously testified, included millions of dollars of client disbursements that had been written off but that she reversed to keep them on the books. Cascino said sometimes the instructions to make the adjustments came from former chief financial officer Joel Sanders, who is on trial with ex-chairman Steven Davis and former executive director Stephen DiCarmine. All three deny any wrongdoing.

“I noticed a disbursement of approximately $24,000 on this matter labeled 'reinstatement of disbursements,'” wrote a partner in London to Cascino, with Sanders copied, in September 2009. The email was projected on a screen for jurors to see during Cascino's testimony. “I have no idea what this is. It should be removed and the matter closed. The deal is long finished.”