One of the nation's outstanding jurists will present a major address at 4p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, in the Wayne State University Law School.

Harry T. Edwards, chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and former professor of law at Harvard University and the University of Michigan, will offer his views about the future of the legal profession.

Edwards will be the inaugural speaker for a newly endowed Law School program established to honor David W. Adamany, the recently retired president of Wayne State University.

The David Adamany Endowed Program was created through the generosity of the Charles H. Gershenson Trust to provide support for scholarship and teaching at the Law School in recognition of Adamany's 15 years of outstanding service to the university.

Edwards' speech will be the latest in a series of important lectures and discussions about the profession that the university has presented over the last four years. A course at the WSU School, Introduction to the Legal Profession, educates law students about the many problems that lawyers face.

Yale Law School Dean Anthony Kronman spoke about the crisis of morale in the profession at the WSU Law School 1994 Driker Forum for Excellence in the Law.

An unresolved question is "Where do lawyers go from here?" The Law School began to answer that question when it convened Michigan's first legal education conclave during the WSU 1996 Driker Forum. The keynote speaker was Robert MacCrate, former American Bar Association (ABA) president and retired partner at Sullivan and Cromwell in New York.

Judge Harry Edwards in recent years also has given substantial thought to the question of where should lawyers go from here.

On Feb. 11, Edwards will continue to explore his new vision for the legal profession. The public is invited, but advance reservations are required.

For more information or to make a reservation, call the Law School at (313) 577-3934.