After a silent day of jury deliberations in the criminal case against three Dewey & LeBoeuf executives, Acting Supreme Court Justice Robert Stolz told the attorneys in the case that he was considering asking jurors if they had reached a partial verdict.

The purpose of the question would be to see where jurors are in the deliberation process, including whether they had reached a decision as to any of the three defendants on any count.

Ex-chairman Steven Davis and former executive director Stephen DiCarmine are charged with 49 criminal counts, while former chief financial officer Joel Sanders is charged with 53 counts. Prosecutors claim the three defendants oversaw a scheme to artificially inflate the firm's net income through a series of accounting adjustments.