Legal Affairs Intern

Job Description

About the Role & Program

Are you ready to kick off your legal career in the entertainment industry? Join the FX Business & Legal Affairs team and gain hands-on experience drafting agreements for above-the-line talent (producers, writers, directors, actors, and casting directors), underlying rights, and marketing for groundbreaking scripted and unscripted streaming programming. As an intern, you’ll support a dynamic team across development, production, legal, and marketing, and contribute to high-profile projects that shape the future of entertainment. This is a unique opportunity that exposes you to business affairs, production legal, and marketing legal, making it an ideal launchpad for your legal career in media and entertainment!

This is a full-time internship, and the approximate dates are from June 2026 through August 2026. If selected for this opportunity, you will report directly to the Senior Manager of Business Affairs.

What You Will Do

As an intern, you will participate in a range of projects designed to enhance your skills and professional development. Your drafting responsibilities will include:

• Preparing production, acting, writing, and development agreements.
• Drafting marketing services agreements.
• Preparing option purchase agreements.
• Addressing talent redline comments.

Additionally, you will have the opportunity to:

• Attend production legal kickoff calls, department meetings, and marketing task force sessions.
• Support research initiatives.
• Assist with synthesizing negotiation updates, closed deal terms, and finalized agreements across various departments.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
• A detail-oriented approach, even when processing a large volume of documents.
• Shown ability to take initiative and balance multiple projects.
• Coursework in entertainment business, entertainment law, copyright, negotiation, or intellectual property.
• Skilled in research and using tools to gather and present information.
• Strong attention to detail with high-volume document processing.
• Exercise substantial care when handling sensitive or confidential information.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous work experience in the entertainment industry, and basic knowledge of copyright law.
• Familiarity with Airtable and/or Netdocs.

Education

• Currently enrolled at an accredited law school and legally eligible to work in the U.S.
• Completion of one or more years of law school in a current JD program at the start of the internship.

Eligibility Requirements & Program Information

Candidates for this opportunity MUST meet all of the below requirements:

• Be enrolled in an accredited college/university pursuing a degree taking at least one class at time of application OR currently participating in a Disney College Program or Disney Internship.
• Current Disney Interns, College, International, or Culinary Program Participants: You may only work for ONE consecutive year (12 months) in any combination of an internship and/or program.
• Be at least 18 years of age.
• Possess unrestricted work authorization.

Additional Information

• Able to have a consistent, reliable work schedule throughout the internship.
• The approximate dates of this internship are June 2026 through August 2026.
• Fully available from Monday through Friday, 9am – 6pm PST for the duration of the internship, 40 hours each week. Internship schedule will be adjusted to accommodate class schedule, and Friday hours may be remote, if desired.
• Able to provide own housing for the duration internship program in the Burbank, California area.
• Able to provide/have reliable transportation to/from work.

The pay rate for this role in California is $41.40 per hour. Select benefits may be provided as part of the compensation package, such as medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered. To learn more about our benefits visit: https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits.