Providing legal services to print, broadcast, online and other media outlets is one of Mr. Steger’s priorities. He is experienced in a wide range of media law issues, and provides litigation, pre-publication review and consulting services to media clients. Mr. Steger handles freedom of information matters for clients, including on a pro bono basis through The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.  Among the media litigation matters he has handled are defamation, copyright infringement, invasion of privacy and reporter's privilege cases.

As in-house counsel for “America’s Most Wanted,” he was responsible for prepublication review of all of the program’s television and Internet content, including defamation prevention, licensing issues and fair use analysis. Mr. Steger was also charged with FCC compliance, responding to subpoenas, FOIA requests, and advising producers on all aspects of news production.

Mr. Steger has spoken frequently on entertainment and media law issues before organizations such as the American Bar Association, the National Press Club, the Association of Corporate Counsel, the District of Columbia Bar, the Virginia Bar Association and the DC Independent Film Festival. He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Communications Law Forum and the First Amendment Committee of its Litigation Section. He is also the author of an article on military restrictions on press coverage of combat operations, “Slicing the Gordian Knot: A Proposal to Reform Military Regulation of the Press,” University of San Francisco Law Review (1994), as well as other articles on First Amendment, copyright and other media law issues.