{"product_id":"9781616192334","title":"The Syllabi","description":"With a preface by Michael H. Hoeflich, John H. \u0026amp; John M. Kane\u003cbr\u003eProfessor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law and an introduction by William E. Butler, John Edward Fowler Distinguished\u003cbr\u003eProfessor of Law, Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of\u003cbr\u003eLaw and Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law at University College\u003cbr\u003eLondon; Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.\u003cbr\u003eIncludes the text of Vol. 1, No. 1 (Oct. 21, 1876) to Vol. 1, No. 26\u003cbr\u003e(April 14, 1877), originally published: St. Paul, Minn.: J.B. West \u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003eCo. 1876-1877.\u003cp\u003e\"In 1876, John B. West, twenty-four years old, launched a new publication that would within a decade evolve into the National\u003cbr\u003eReporter System. As a traveling salesman for an office supply company in St. Paul, young West visited many Minnesota attorneys. He learned that the official publishers of court reports were chronically slow.\u003cbr\u003eWest was later to say that if the official state publishers had been properly doing their jobs there would have been no need for his reporters.\u003cbr\u003eHis first publication, The Syllabi was an eight-page weekly news-sheet that contained \"prompt and reliable intelligence as to the various questions adjudicated by the Minnesota Courts at a date long prior to the publication of the State Reports.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts immediate popularity among the bar soon forced it to outgrow its original format and coverage. In early 1877, only six months after it had begun, The Syllabi was replaced by the North-Western Reporter. The reporter, another weekly, was also a transitional publication. It contained the full text of all Minnesota Supreme Court decisions and\u003cbr\u003eMinnesota federal court decisions, as well as those from the Wisconsin\u003cbr\u003eSupreme Court in cases \"of special importance.\" This publication lasted two years, four semi-annual volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1879, West announced a new series of the North Western Reporter\u003cbr\u003e(the first of the modern West regional reporters) that would publish the full text of all current supreme court decisions from Iowa,\u003cbr\u003eMinnesota, Michigan, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and the Dakota Territory.\u003cbr\u003eThe Federal Reporter and the Supreme Court Reporter began within the next two years and, in 1885, West Publishing (as it was incorporated in 1882) announced the publication of four new reporters that, along with its current reports, gave it nationwide coverage. (.) The\u003cbr\u003eNational Reporter System was soon proclaimed to have \"Unquestionably revolutionized the whole plan of law reporting.\" --Thomas A. Woxland \u0026amp; Patti J. Ogden, Landmarks in American Legal Publishing. An Exhibit Catalogue 38-40.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Lawbook Exchange","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051084234992,"sku":"9781616192334","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781616192334_p0.jpg?v=1763849396","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781616192334","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}