Ira Brad Matetsky

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

Ira Brad Matetsky
Matetsky at the annual dinner of The Baker Street Irregulars in New York City, January 2019
Born
New York City, New York
Other namesNewyorkbrad
Education
OccupationLawyer

Matetsky has practiced law since 1987, and has been a partner at Ganfer Shore Leeds & Zauderer,[2] a New York City business litigation and real estate law firm, since 2004, working in both their litigation practice group and their cooperative and condominium housing practice group. Before joining Ganfer & Shore, he was 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 the Green Bag Almanac & Reader.[5][6] He has been cited as a legal expert by media sources including CNBC, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, and The National Law Journal.[7][8][9][10][11]

He has been a guest blogger for Eugene Volokh's blog The Volokh Conspiracy.[12] Among the clients he has represented while working at Ganfer & Shore is Morris Talansky, on whose behalf he filed a suit against the Israeli satellite company ImageSat International in 2007.[13] The suit was dismissed the following year.[14]

On Wikipedia, he is known by his username Newyorkbrad, and has been a member of the site's Arbitration Committee.[15][16] He began editing Wikipedia in 2005, on the same day that United States Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist died, as he noticed and corrected a factual error on Rehnquist's Wikipedia page. He served on the English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee from 2008 to 2014, and rejoined it in 2017,[17] making him the Committee's longest-serving member.[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, Matetsky edited The Last Drive and Other Stories, a collection of Stout's earliest published work.[21]

References
  1. "Ira Brad Matetsky". Martindale-Hubbell. Retrieved 2018-06-14.
  2. "Ganfer Shore Leeds & Zauderer LLP". Retrieved 2018-06-29.
  3. "Ira Brad Matetsky". Ganfer & Shore. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  4. "The Journal of In-Chambers Practice". Retrieved 2018-06-14.
  5. "Almanac Excerpts, 2015–2017". The Journal of Law. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  6. "2012 Green Bag Almanac & Reader" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-06-14.
  7. Merle, Renae (September 14, 2017). "Martin Shkreli's out-of-court antics could guarantee him a longer prison sentence, experts say". The Washington Post. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  8. Sheetz, Michael (30 October 2013). "Here's what the charges against Manafort and Gates mean". CNBC. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  9. Thompson, Isobel (November 14, 2017). "Why Sessions's Move Against Clinton Could Be a Set-Up". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  10. Kosoff, Matya (December 12, 2017). "How Trump's Legal Team Is Trying to Bury Robert Mueller". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  11. Mauro, Tony (June 20, 2018). "'In Chambers' Supreme Court Opinions Get Rare Nod in Gerrymandering Ruling". The National Law Journal. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  12. Volokh, Eugene (2009-05-11). "Ira Matetsky, Guest-Blogging". The Volokh Conspiracy. Retrieved 2018-06-14.
  13. Pomerantz, David (2007-07-13). "Spy Satellite Lands Israel in U.S. Court". New York Sun. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
  14. Destefano, Anthony M. (August 1, 2008). "Woodmere businessman may be off to Israel for lawsuit". McClatchy-Tribune Business News. The McClatchy Company – via ProQuest.
  15. Cohen, Noam (2009-06-08). "The Wars of Words on Wikipedia's Outskirts". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  16. Cohen, Noam (2011-09-12). "On Wikipedia, 9/11 Dissent Is Kept on the Fringe". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-06-14.
  17. Karuppur, Abhiram (2018-06-13). "Ira Matetsky '84 Helps Settle Disputes Among Wikipedia Editors". Princeton Alumni Weekly. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  18. Ramey, Corinne (2018-05-07). "The 15 People Who Keep Wikipedia's Editors From Killing Each Other". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-06-14.
  19. Hewitt, Chris (2014-06-01). "Fans of detective Nero Wolfe coming to St. Paul to see their hero on stage". St. Paul Pioneer Press. Retrieved 2018-06-14.
  20. Doyle, Arthur Conan; Opperman, Meg (2016-11-07). Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #21. Wildside Press LLC. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-4794-2429-0.
  21. "The Last Drive and Other Stories by Rex Stout". Mysterious Press. 2015. Retrieved 2018-06-14.
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