I'm not sure what you mean by "legal department" so I want to give you some background. In general, there are going to be three legal parts -- each very large -- to Disney (defined below*): (1) litigation, (2) corporate and transactional, and (3) general counsel. As the term "general" implies, general counsel oversees everything as does its office (hence, in the government why you have an Attorney General and Solicitor General).
Alan Braverman (
link) is general counsel of The Walt Disney Company (appointed in January, 2003) Braverman serves as the chief legal officer of the company and oversees its team of attorneys responsible for all aspects of Disney's legal affairs around the world. Here is an article on him from
Super Lawyers (link). Braverman works out of in Disney's Burbank Office, although I imagine he could probably work anywhere in the world he wants. As Senior Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, it is reported that he made $8,391,100 in total compensation last year.
I have no idea how large Disney's in-house counsel is (the staff that Braverman and people who work for him overseas), but it must be very large. As the Super Lawyers article states: "At an iconic company like Disney, every legal matter has the potential to be a giant news story, which, in turn, makes Disney an appealing company to sue. Over the years, Disney has been sued by a Pennsylvania woman who claimed she was groped by a Donald Duck; by a man who said he was stranded on the “it’s a small world” ride for 40 minutes; by a man who claimed a breach of contract for his contestant appearance on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, claiming that the $16,000 question—which he responded to incorrectly—was not “an absolute question with a singularly correct answer”; and by a woman who claimed her script was used to develop Desperate Housewives, citing, in part, the similarity between both works including the similar use of the word “fun” and that they both contained a red car.
Braverman gets a report on every suit, and pays personal attention to any case with a significant financial, reputational or principle risk, such as one that might set new parameters on intellectual property protection. Much of his attention, though, is focused on even more strategic matters in the rapidly evolving entertainment and media landscape," according to the Super Lawyer article."
For most litigation, Disney uses outside counsel. That is, Disney hires a law firm to handle it. For example, Disney hired
Louis Ederer (link) of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (NYC) to handle a big trademark and copyright lawsuit
(link to opinion). When Disney sued VidAngel, Disney hired
Kelly Klaus (link) of Munger Tolles and Olson LLP. Of course, they didn't just hire one person at those firms but a team of attorneys. Disney appears to hire the top attorneys at the top firms when it comes to intellectual property (I'm hitting top 20 firms in the world when I search for who they hire on the court's dockets). They may hire more local, but still great firms, for personal injury at a theme park for example.
My guess is that Disney handles transactional items in-house. Here is a link to
legal internship at Disney Careers (link). And here is another
(not JD associated) (link). The later is a Contract Administration Intern, Studio – Fall 2018. They must have one of those positions a lot. They are in Burbank, California.
Note: Disney's "legal department" is going to be split into a number of places. For example, there is a business and legal affairs department at Disney Theatrical Group, the business unit of the Walt Disney Company responsible for the company’s Broadway, domestic and international live stage play business. Disney Theatrical’s business includes 9 worldwide companies of “The Lion King,” Aladdin which opened in 2014, and musicals in development including shows based on Frozen and The Princess Bride. They are located in New York.
You could also be part of the legal department at Hong Kong Disneyland Resort or help with Workers Compensation in Kissimmee, Florida or how about working at ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut. They may well have legal internships there.
So, if it were me, and I don't care where I live, here is what I do: Focus on Burbank, California, in general. Also figure out what areas of Disney you most want to focus on. Sports (ESPN) is different than theater. Get a top three. Read the descriptions of the jobs at
https://jobs.disneycareers.com/ and take them seriously.
Go on Linkedin and try to find people who have jobs that are similar to the ones you want. Email them politely and ask for 5-10 minutes of their time to ask what you should do to make yourself more appealing to Disney. Ask them about the general structure. Do *not* ask them to help you get a job, and do *not* ask them to tell you what to do with your life or where you should work. You should know that and you should have reasons why. If you don't, then think about that first. It's really hard for people to help if you have no idea of what you want to do other than work for "Disney." Some people will help (some won't) but they need to know what you want to do.
Some other general advice: if you don't know how to value a company or a stock or a business transaction, learn to do so. Learn how to read a SEC Form 10-k and 10-q and the other forms. Coursera has an
excellent course (link) that covers accounting, which is the main aspect of those forms you'll want to be able to understand.
Disney is a publicly traded company and in is in the middle of a lot of mergers and acquisitions, not to mention trying to constantly decide whether to invest resources somewhere else (e.g., a new theme park, a new hotel, a new project). If you aren't proficient in Excel, learn it in the context of valuation (it doesn't take long). Learn Discount Cash Flow Analysis and other ways of valuing investment ideas. Unless you want to be a litigator (which really removes you from Disney and puts you in court arguing over procedure and case law), you want to be thinking about transactions including investments. The more you know about this, and the more you can talk the language of finance they talk, the more people will appreciate you. Note that what General Counsel is focused on is "Much of his attention, though, is focused on even more strategic matters in the rapidly evolving entertainment and media landscape." That doesn't just mean what is the next big idea, but what are the numbers behind the next big idea.
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*Disney has a large number of assets, each of which may be set up as a separate company that Disney owns. See here for
a list (link).