Ira Brad Matetsky (born 1962)[1] is an American lawyer. 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 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] and the Baker Street Almanac.[7] He has been a guest blogger for the legal blog The Volokh Conspiracy.[8]
While working at Ganfer & Shore, he represented Morris Talansky, filing a suit against the Israeli satellite company ImageSat International on their behalf in 2007.[9] The suit was dismissed the following year.[10]
In 2005, Matetsky began editing Wikipedia under the username Newyorkbrad, correcting a factual error on William Rehnquist's Wikipedia page.[11] He was a member of the English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee from 2008 to 2014, and was re-elected in 2017.[11] As of May 2018[update] he was the Committee's longest-serving member.[12] He was in this role until December 2018, then again from January 2020 to December 2021.[citation needed]
As of 2016[update], Matetsky was the "werowance" (or president) of the Wolfe Pack, an organization of fans of Rex Stout's most famous fictional detective, Nero Wolfe.[13][14] In 2015, he edited The Last Drive and Other Stories, a collection of Stout's earliest published work.[15]
^Destefano, Anthony M. (August 1, 2008). "Woodmere businessman may be off to Israel for lawsuit". McClatchy-Tribune Business News. The McClatchy Company – via ProQuest.
