An informal eponymous club called The Saturday Club, that met at 11 a. m. every week was started at the house of the Vakil Bar's senior member Sir S. Subramania Iyer in Mylapore in 1888 with all leading members of the Madras Bar taking part. At one of these meetings, it was decided to start "The Madras Law Journal", which was inspired by the then newly established periodicals like "Law Quarterly Review", started by Sir Frederick Pollock in England in 1885 and "The Harvard Law Review" established by Harvard Law School Association in 1887.