Ira Brad Matetsky

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Ira Brad Matetsky
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Matetsky in 2023
Born1962 (age 6162)
New York City, U.S.
Education Princeton University (AB)
Fordham University (JD)
OccupationLawyer

Ira Brad Matetsky (born 1962) [1] is an American lawyer.

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Biography

Matetsky has practiced law since 1987. He has been a partner in the New York City office of Dorf Nelson & Zauderer LLP, [2] 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 [3] [4] and an editor of both the Green Bag Almanac & Reader [5] [6] and the Baker Street Almanac. [7] He has been cited as a legal expert by media sources including CNBC, Vanity Fair , The Washington Post , and The National Law Journal . [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

Matetsky has been a guest blogger for Eugene Volokh's blog The Volokh Conspiracy . [13] While working at Ganfer & Shore, he represented Morris Talansky, filing a suit against the Israeli satellite company ImageSat International on their behalf in 2007. [14] The suit was dismissed the following year. [15]

In 2005, Matetsky began editing Wikipedia under the username Newyorkbrad, correcting a factual error on William Rehnquist's Wikipedia page. [16] He served on the English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee from 2008 to 2014, and was re-elected in 2017. [16] As of May 2018 he was the Committee's longest-serving member. [17] He served until December 2018, then again from January 2020 to December 2021. [18]

As of 2016, 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. [19] [20] In 2015, he edited The Last Drive and Other Stories, a collection of Stout's earliest published work. [21]

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