Previously Durham worked as a Fleet Legal Officer reporting directly to the Fleet Commander in the lead up to Gulf War 1. He then moved into civilian practice both Government and Private sector, working in various senior roles including Regional Defence Client Manager, delivering legal support for Navy and Army Training command equipment and services competitive tendering, procurement, major capital acquisition and logistic support as well as commercial outsourcing projects.
In private practice, he has worked for two major telecommunication and IT companies, banks, insurers, manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, retailers across a wide-range of industry sectors. Delivering legal advice and support for both commercial infrastructure and content contracts.
Durham has also led project teams providing legal support for Severn Trent plc with a whole-of-business IP Audit and Valuation project.
Durham is dual-qualified as both a UK and Australian legal practitioner, and has over 20 years working with globally focused clients, focusing particularly over the past 10 years in providing UK businesses and organisations with commercially-focused legal support combined with specialist expertise in technology and intellectual property management, licensing R&D and commercialisation opportunities both in the UK and globally.
Most recently he has been working with the Manchester Metropolitan University in-house legal team and as a Commercial and Intellectual Property visiting lecturer for the Manchester Law School’s LPC program. He has also been regularly working with and providing business IP and commercial law focused master-classes for other NW based universities and business support organisations (including the Business Growth Hub and Innospace). He provides targeted commercial and specialist IT and IP advice and support to start-ups and more established UK businesses seeking to build and develop their business product offerings.