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

Biography

Matetsky has practiced law since 1987. He has been a

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at Ganfer Shore Leeds & Zauderer, 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, Matetsky was a litigation attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, after which he served as co-

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at Goya Foods, Inc. Matetsky is the

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of ''The Journal of In-Chambers Practice'' and an editor of both the ''Green Bag Almanac & Reader'' and the ''Baker Street Almanac''. Matetsky has been cited as a legal expert by media sources including

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, '' Vanity Fair'', ''

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''. Matetsky has been a guest blogger for Eugene Volokh's blog The Volokh Conspiracy. While working at Ganfer & Shore, Matetsky represented Morris Talansky, filing a suit against the

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on their behalf in 2007. The suit was dismissed the following year. Matetsky began editing Wikipedia in 2005 under the username ''Newyorkbrad'', correcting a factual error on – recently deceased – William Rehnquist's Wikipedia page. Matetsky served on the English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee from 2008 to 2014, and rejoined in 2017, making him the Committee's longest-serving member. As of 2016, Matetsky also serves as the "werowance" (or president) of the

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, an organization of fans of Rex Stout's most famous fictional detective,

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. In 2015, Matetsky edited ''The Last Drive and Other Stories'', a collection of Stout's earliest published work.

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