Ira Brad Matetsky
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Matetsky in 2023
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| Born | 1962 (age 61–62)
New York City, U.S.
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| Education | Princeton University (AB) Fordham University (JD) |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Ira Brad Matetsky (born 1962)[1] is an American lawyer.
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 counselatGoya Foods, Inc. He is the editor-in-chiefofThe 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[update] 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[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.[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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