Jason Dennis of the Hastings Law Firm is seen at a selectmen's meeting in 2023. In all, he billed nearly $25,000 for services that Hastings and McLane Middleton law firm provided for an investigation into a Town Hall personnel matter. (DAYMOND STEER PHOTO)
Amanda Brahm is vice chair of the Education Law Group in the Litigation Department of McLane Middleton law firm's Portsmouth branch. The town was billed $525 for a teleconference Jason Dennis had with her April 22 regarding the town's personnel investigation. (COURTESY PHOTO)
John Colbath, seen here as the selectmen’s representative to the Conway School Board’s John Fuller Action Ad Hoc Committee on April 1, resigned as a selectman later in the month. (LLOYD JONES PHOTO)
Jason Dennis of the Hastings Law Firm is seen at a selectmen's meeting in 2023. In all, he billed nearly $25,000 for services that Hastings and McLane Middleton law firm provided for an investigation into a Town Hall personnel matter. (DAYMOND STEER PHOTO)
Amanda Brahm is vice chair of the Education Law Group in the Litigation Department of McLane Middleton law firm's Portsmouth branch. The town was billed $525 for a teleconference Jason Dennis had with her April 22 regarding the town's personnel investigation. (COURTESY PHOTO)
John Colbath, seen here as the selectmen’s representative to the Conway School Board’s John Fuller Action Ad Hoc Committee on April 1, resigned as a selectman later in the month. (LLOYD JONES PHOTO)
CONWAY — The town spent nearly $25,000 on an investigation conducted during the months preceding the resignation of Selectman John Colbath, a process that took the town attorney about 31 hours to manage with the help of a second law firm.
On Tuesday, Eastman made invoices from Hastings Law Office, consisting of about a dozen pages, available to the Sun. The invoices show the investigation ran from Dec. 1, 2025, to April 30, 2026. Many of the invoice entries were for fractions of an hour.
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