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Steve Chung

Chief Counsel, Disney Entertainment Television at Disney

Steve Chung serves as the Chief Counsel for Disney Entertainment Television.

Prior to joining The Walt Disney Company in 2017, Chung held the position of senior vice president, NBCUniversal Legal, where he served as attorney for the “TODAY Show,” Owned Stations Group, NBC Sports, NBC Entertainment News and NBCU Television Distribution Group (syndicated talk shows). He counseled clients on intellectual property, First Amendment, regulatory, compliance, litigation, advertising, privacy, employment, digital and transactional matters. Chung was also a founding member of NBCUniversal’s diversity committee for the law department, serving as the head of the group for a term.

He was a member of the board of directors for the Asian American Bar Association of New York and created a mentorship program that has reached hundreds of diverse lawyers and is still in operation.

Before his legal career, Chung was a management consultant, focused on data analytics, creating prediction models for data-rich industries and working with the management of Fortune 500 companies to adopt new strategies.