Ira Brad Matetsky (born 1962) is an American lawyer.
Ira Brad Matetsky | |
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 Matetsky in 2023 | |
| Born | 1962 (age 61–62) New York City, U.S. |
| Education | Princeton University (AB) Fordham University (JD) |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Biography
Matetsky has practiced law since 1987. He has been a partner in the New York City office of Dorf Nelson & Zauderer LLP, a New York City business litigation firm, since 2023, and was a partner in a predecessor firm from 2004 to 2023. He began his legal career as a litigation attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, after which he served as co-general counsel at Goya Foods, Inc. He is the editor-in-chief of The Journal of In-Chambers Practice and an editor of both the Green Bag Almanac & Reader and the Baker Street Almanac. He has been cited as a legal expert by media sources including CNBC, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, and The National Law Journal.
Matetsky has been a guest blogger for Eugene Volokh's blog The Volokh Conspiracy. While working at Ganfer & Shore, he represented Morris Talansky, filing a suit against the Israeli satellite company ImageSat International on their behalf in 2007. The suit was dismissed the following year.
In 2005, Matetsky began editing Wikipedia under the username Newyorkbrad, correcting a factual error on William Rehnquist's Wikipedia page. He served on the English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee from 2008 to 2014, and was re-elected in 2017. As of May 2018[update] he was the Committee's longest-serving member. He served until December 2018, then again from January 2020 to December 2021.
As of 2016[update], Matetsky also serves as the "werowance" (or president) of the Wolfe Pack, an organization of fans of Rex Stout's most famous fictional detective, Nero Wolfe. In 2015, he edited The Last Drive and Other Stories, a collection of Stout's earliest published work.