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American lawyer and Wikipedian (born 1962)
Ira Brad Matetsky (born 1962)
[1] is an American lawyer.
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
[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]
References
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"Ira Brad Matetsky" .
Martindale-Hubbell . Retrieved June 14, 2018 .
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"Dorf Nelson & Zauderer LLP" . Dorf Nelson & Zauderer . Retrieved January 19, 2024 .
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"Ira Brad Matetsky" . Ganfer & Shore . Retrieved June 13, 2018 .
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"The Journal of In-Chambers Practice" . Retrieved June 14, 2018 .
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"Almanac Excerpts, 2015–2017" . The Journal of Law. Retrieved June 13, 2018 .
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"2012 Green Bag Almanac & Reader" (PDF) . Green Bag Almanac & Reader . Retrieved June 14, 2018 .
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"The Baker Street Almanac 2020" . Baker Street Almanac . Retrieved October 2, 2018 .
^ 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 June 14, 2018 .
^ Sheetz, Michael (October 30, 2013).
"Here's what the charges against Manafort and Gates mean" .
CNBC . Retrieved June 14, 2018 .
^ Thompson, Isobel (November 14, 2017).
"Why Sessions's Move Against Clinton Could Be a Set-Up" .
Vanity Fair . Retrieved June 14, 2018 .
^ Kosoff, Matya (December 12, 2017).
"How Trump's Legal Team Is Trying to Bury Robert Mueller" .
Vanity Fair . Retrieved June 14, 2018 .
^ Mauro, Tony (June 20, 2018).
" 'In Chambers' Supreme Court Opinions Get Rare Nod in Gerrymandering Ruling" .
The National Law Journal . Retrieved June 20, 2018 .
^ Volokh, Eugene (May 11, 2009).
"Ira Matetsky, Guest-Blogging" .
The Volokh Conspiracy . Retrieved June 14, 2018 .
^ Pomerantz, David (July 13, 2007).
"Spy Satellite Lands Israel in U.S. Court" .
New York Sun . Retrieved June 15, 2018 .
^ Destefano, Anthony M. (August 1, 2008). "Woodmere businessman may be off to Israel for lawsuit". McClatchy-Tribune Business News .
The McClatchy Company – via
ProQuest .
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a
b Karuppur, Abhiram (June 13, 2018).
"Ira Matetsky '84 Helps Settle Disputes Among Wikipedia Editors" .
Princeton Alumni Weekly . Retrieved June 13, 2018 .
^ Ramey, Corinne (May 7, 2018).
"The 15 People Who Keep Wikipedia's Editors From Killing Each Other" .
Wall Street Journal .
ISSN
0099-9660 . Archived from
the original on June 1, 2018. Retrieved June 14, 2018 .
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"Arbitration Committee/History: Current and former members" . Wikipedia . Retrieved May 19, 2023 .
^ Hewitt, Chris (June 1, 2014).
"Fans of detective Nero Wolfe coming to St. Paul to see their hero on stage" .
St. Paul Pioneer Press . Retrieved June 14, 2018 .
^ Doyle, Arthur Conan; Opperman, Meg (November 7, 2016).
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #21 .
Wildside Press LLC. p. 4.
ISBN
978-1-4794-2429-0 .
^
"The Last Drive and Other Stories by Rex Stout" .
Mysterious Press . 2015. Retrieved June 14, 2018 .
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