A former manager at a law firm has been found not guilty by a jury of two counts of raping a then colleague.

Dale Cooney, Arnold Bloch Leibler's one-time director of finance, was accused of raping a woman he worked with in the early hours of July 14, 2001, on the woman's bed.

Dale Cooney was found not guilty.

A County Court jury on Tuesday afternoon found Mr Cooney, 47, not guilty of two counts of rape. The jury began its deliberations on Tuesday morning.

Prosecutors had alleged Mr Cooney raped the woman after she opened the door to his loud banging and he went inside and told her to go back to bed.