TED LAZARUS is a director of Google’s legal department, where he leads a team of attorneys responsible for Google’s display advertising, syndication, and analytics businesses—including DoubleClick, YouTube, the Google Display Network, the DoubleClick Ad Exchange, AdSense, and Google Analytics. He advises Google’s product, engineering, and sales teams on a wide array of privacy, product development, and regulatory issues. He regularly represents Google in commercial transactions related to its advertising programs, including negotiating some of the company’s most significant display advertising agreements with global advertising agencies and Fortune 500 companies. Lazarus has managed several of Google’s largest, most complex post-acquisition integration efforts, including DoubleClick, AdMob, and AdMeld. He serves on the board of directors of the Network Advertising Initiative. Before joining Google, Lazarus served as deputy general counsel of DoubleClick. Prior to that, he was a litigation associate with Covington & Burling LLP. He served as a law clerk for US District Judge Nicholas Garaufis (E.D.N.Y.). He holds a JD from Columbia Law School, where he earned James Kent and Harlan Fiske Stone scholar honors, and a BA, magna cum laude, from Amherst College.
