Matthew Giacobbe Billed the Westfield Board of Education $14,487.50 to Represent One BOE Member (A Rutgers Law Professor) for Just One School Ethics Complaint. The Amount is Excessive. The Billing is Absurd. Some Bills Were Called Unlawful. It Fits a Pattern.

Link to a set of Giacobbe bills for a simple ethics complaint:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tggnLCf4KZ8Qe4mnQwsapi5TW-Yoctnz/view?usp=sharing

Links to background on the Westfield ethics case in question:

Lodi By The Numbers: Matthew Giacobbe Didn't Only Defend and Even Praise a Board Member Spewing Hateful Antisemitism. It is Alleged that Giacobbe Also Helped that "Law Professor" Retaliate Against Other Board Members Using Westfield Tax Dollars.

Lodi By The Numbers: Hypocrite Matthew Giacobbe Did Everything Possible to Attack My Free Speech Rights Regarding this Personal Blog After I Exposed His Dishonest Practices. Meanwhile He Has Been Defending another Board Member’s Anti-Semitism as a First Amendment Right…

Matthw Giacobbe was assigned to represent Sahar Aziz.  Every news article only lists Matthew Giacobbe as her attorney.  Yet a different attorney from the Giacobbe firm, Janice Arellano, billed the most at $10,444.50.  Matthew Giacobbe gives presentations before BOEs stating that he personally will be assigned to the district, he will perform the work for the district and occasionally another attorney may substitute for him at a meeting.  When bills come in, there are lots of attorney names that nobody ever heard of, nobody ever met, and nobody ever dealt with.

Why would a law professor even need the Giacobbe attorneys and public funds to answer a basic ethics complaint?  Why is Matthew Giacobbe billing so more than other firms assigned in school ethics cases?  Why does Matthew Giacobbe bill so much more than other firms by overusing the words “review, prepare, and revise”?