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| In the early days of official law reporting in New York, the reporters appear to have operated out of their private law offices. The first (Caines) and second (Johnson) were located in New York City, and the third (Cowen) had an office in Saratoga Springs. But beginning with the fourth Reporter (Wendell), most reporters have maintained their offices in Albany. All of their known offices can be found within a quarter-mile radius of the old State Hall (now Court of Appeals Hall), which became the home of the office of State Reporter when the Court of Appeals first occupied it in 1917. Until 1938, the State Reporter was responsible only for the publication of the opinions of the Court of Appeals and predecessor courts of last resort, work that could be accomplished by the reporter and five assistants. But with the creation of the Law Reporting Bureau in 1938, the consolidation of all official reporting under the State Reporter, and the growth in the number of published opinions, the staff gradually outgrew its office space in Court of Appeals Hall. Since 1985, the Law Reporting Bureau has occupied leased space on the seventeenth floor of One Commerce Plaza. |
1 Above: 68 North Pearl St., site of office of John L. Wendell (c. 1828) City of Albany bicentennial parade route, Kenmore block, North Pearl St. July 18-22, 1886. Main Photograph Collection Albany Institute of History & Art Library |
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Left: Etching of State St. and Broadway in 1837. 125 State St. was the site of the office of John L. Wendell (c. 1831). Courtesy of the Albany Public Library |
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