Former Jenkens & Gilchrist partner Paul Daugerdas was convicted Thursday on seven of 16 counts in his retrial for a conspiracy to market bogus tax shelters that helped wealthy clients avoid hundreds of millions in taxes. A jury before Southern District Judge William Pauley convicted Daugerdas but co-defendant Denis Field, the former CEO of BDO Seidman, was acquitted on all counts.
Daugerdas and Field were initially convicted along with former Jenkens & Gilchrist partner Donna Guerin in 2011, but Pauley ordered a new trial for the three after revelations that suspended attorney Catherine M. Conrad had lied about her identity and her profession to get on the jury.
