History of Forster-Long, LLC
Forster-Long, LLC is the publisher of THE AMERICAN BAR including The
Canadian Bar, The Mexican Bar and The International Bar. We have
served the legal community by providing a quality reference publication of
leading firms around the world since 1918. We have also provided the industry
standard reference on the American judiciary with THE AMERICAN BENCH:
Judges of the Nation. Since 1977, it has been the definitive
biographical reference on America's judges. The company has gone through
several transformations, however, our dedication to the quality of our
products has never changed.
THE AMERICAN BAR began publication in 1918, listing ranking
lawyers in the United States and Canada. In 1956, an International section was
added to the book. In 1964, the name of the 46th Annual Edition of the
publication was changed to THE AMERICAN BAR-THE CANADIAN BAR-THE
INTERNATIONAL BAR. In 1995, with the 77th annual edition, The Mexican Bar
was added and the official name changed again to THE AMERICAN BAR including
The Canadian Bar, The Mexican Bar and The International Bar. The
publication is still sometimes referred to as just THE AMERICAN BAR,
even in international circles, but it does include listings of firms in over
100 countries.
James Clark Fifield and colleagues originally founded the company in 1917
as the James C. Fifield Company to publish THE AMERICAN BAR. Reginald
Bishop Forster became president of the Company in 1937, and in 1963 changed
the company name to Reginald Bishop Forster & Associates, Inc. The current
president, Jay W. Long, joined Reginald Bishop Forster & Associates, Inc.
in 1967. He came from Ford Motor Company to start with this publishing company
in a sales capacity. He became president in 1973 and began making major
improvements to THE AMERICAN BAR with the 1973 edition, changing the
format and adding useful indexes. The company created and began publishing THE
AMERICAN BENCH in 1977, a comprehensive biographical reference work on
the American judiciary.
Jay W. Long became the owner of Reginald Bishop Forster & Associates,
Inc., in 1983 and moved the Company to its present location in the capital of
California, Sacramento. In 1988, the company name was changed to the current
name of Forster-Long, Inc. In 2009 the company was sold and the name was
changed to Forster-Long, LLC.
The Company continues to make improvements to meet the needs of today's
legal market. We welcome any comments and suggestions you may have. Please
contact us if you have any feedback for us about the products or this site.
