Former Liberty County School System Chief Financial Officer Roger Reese and his attorney were no shows at a tribunal hearing on his employment status Tuesday at the Liberty County Board of Education office. In an email to the Courier, Reese’s attorney, Matthew Billips, said his client plans to move forward with a lawsuit and questioned why the BoE, apparently under the advisement of Atlanta attorney Phillip Hartley, had the hearing despite its status as a charter school system, which means it is exempt from the Fair Dismissal Act. “We questioned the board’s authority to hold such a hearing, since it has opted out of the Fair Dismissal Act and, as an arbitration pursuant to contract, the procedures were substantively unconscionable,” said Billips, who previously called the tribunal, “a hand-picked kangaroo court.”