LATEST: The jury has found Hall guilty of four out of the eight original counts of stealing, amounting to about $11,000.
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Justice Estcourt adjourned the matter for mention to Hobart on Friday next week, when a sentencing date will be set.
UPDATE 5pm: The jury has told the court that they have reached a majority verdict on five counts, but have yet to decide upon the remaining two counts.
Justice Estcourt has sent the jury out to deliberate further.
UPDATE 2.30pm: The jury has been sent outside court for a break and will return to continue deliberations shortly.
UPDATE 11am : Justice Stephen Estcourt has advised the jury that because they have been deliberating for more than two hours, he will accept majority verdicts of 10 or more jurors for each count.
The jury retired after 3.30pm yesterday and resumed deliberations at 9.30am today.
EARLIER: The defence counsel for a lawyer accused of a $16,000 theft has painted his client as a "sorrowful, vulnerable and emotionally sad" man who was simply following the lead of the former employer from whom he is accused of stealing.
"What is good for the goose is good for the gander," barrister Geoffrey Steward said in his closing address in the Launceston Supreme Court yesterday.
His client Adrian John Hall, 39, a criminal law practitioner, pleaded not guilty last week to eight counts of stealing.
One count, in relation to a $2000 cheque that was allegedly made out to Mr Hall, was withdrawn on Tuesday.
This reduced the total amount allegedly stolen by Mr Hall to about $15,780, which the Crown argues that he stole from Launceston barrister and solicitor Grant Tucker between August 2010 and September 2012.
Mr Steward further stated yesterday that the main Crown witness, Mr Tucker, "commenced and perpetuated" the "cash culture" within his office.
However, he admitted that Mr Hall "told some untruths" in his video-recorded interview with police.
Mr Steward further said there was no doubt that Mr Hall accepted that he received unreceipted cash on occasions.
He said the defence also accepted the evidence of four of Mr Hall's past clients who were Crown witnesses.
Mr Steward said that Mr Hall "could not remember" the specific instances, but he was not accusing the witnesses of lying.
The state has accused Mr Hall of having pocketed cash payments from clients in amounts ranging from about $320 to $9000.
The defence has denied that Mr Hall acted dishonestly.
The jury retired to consider its verdicts after 3.30pm yesterday.
