• BA, Fordham University, 1968
  
• JD, Harvard Law School, 1973
  
• Honorable Discharge, United States Army Reserve, 1976 (Captain, Infantry)

MEHAFFY & WEBER - BEAUMONT, TEXAS, 1979-PRESENT (PARTNER)

• Certified specialist in labor and employment law, 1980 to present, certified specialist in business bankruptcy and in consumer bankruptcy, 1989 to present, Texas Board
  of Legal Specialization; member, Bankruptcy Advisory Commission of the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, 1992 - 2000. This Commission certifies applicants as qualified to take the specialization examination for either business bankruptcy or consumer bankruptcy.
  
• Author, chapter 8 (AFederal WARN Notice Requirements@) of Employment
  Severance Answer Book, The Panel Answer Book Series, Panel Publishers Division
  of Aspen Publishers, Inc., 1998.
  
• Labor speeches before the American Hospital Association, the Texas Nursing Home Association, and the American Society of Safety Engineers; bankruptcy speeches before the University of Texas Bankruptcy Institute, the Texas A & M University Appraisal Institute, and the State Bar of Texas Advanced Consumer Bankruptcy Seminar.
  
• Permanent panel bankruptcy trustee, Eastern District of Texas, 1985-1992 (active,
  to present inactive); chair, local rules committee, Eastern District of Texas Bankruptcy Court, 1995-1997.
  
• Represented Mr. Elray Rash in oral argument before the Eastern District of Texas,
  the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals en banc and the United States Supreme Court in the case, Associates Commercial Corp. v. Rash,
  the primary law on appraisal in bankruptcy. He assisted in the preparation of the
  trial and evidentiary presentations and appellate briefs up to and including the
  United States Supreme Court for Mr. and Mrs. Till in the case Till v. SCS, the
  primary law on the interest rate to be paid in Chapter 13 bankruptcies.
  
• Mr. Durkay is a frequent speaker on bankruptcy topics before the University of
  Texas Bankruptcy Institute, the State Bar of Texas Advanced Business Bankruptcy Seminar, the University of Texas Consumer Bankruptcy Institute and the State Bar
  of Texas Advanced Consumer Bankruptcy Seminar and since 2005 has served on
  the planning committees for both the University of Texas Consumer Bankruptcy Institute and the State Bar of Texas Advanced Consumer Bankruptcy Seminar.
  
• General counsel of the Golden Triangle Business Roundtable, the Southeast Texas affiliate to the National Business Roundtable, since 1980; General counsel of the national Association of Reciprocal Safety Councils, an umbrella organization to facilitate reciprocity between local safety councils for training and testing
  certification, since 1995; organizer in 1992 and general counsel, Southeast Texas Plant Managers Forum, an organization of the managers of the 50 heavy industrial plants in the Golden Triangle.