Joel Sanders, former CFO of Dewey & LeBoeuf, speaks to an unidentified woman outside the courtroom after he was found guilty Monday.

Almost exactly five years after Dewey & LeBoeuf filed for bankruptcy, a Manhattan jury on Monday found its former chief financial officer, Joel Sanders, guilty of fraudulently concealing the firm's precarious finances ahead of its collapse.

The jury of eight women and four men reached its decision after five days of deliberations and about three months of trial. Jurors found Sanders guilty of scheme to defraud, securities fraud and conspiracy, while clearing former Dewey executive director Stephen DiCarmine on the same charges.

The verdict caps a retrial that began in February, when prosecutors under Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. returned to court to try to persuade jurors that DiCarmine and Sanders schemed to deceive the firm's lenders and investors about Dewey's financial position in the years before its May 2012 bankruptcy.