UnitedHealth Hires Legal Chief as Pandemic Disrupts Business (1)

UnitedHealth Group Inc. announced Friday its hire of Matthew Friedrich as chief legal officer, a role he will assume Jan. 11, as the managed health care and insurance company copes with the ongoing fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

Friedrich, 54, is a former partner at Boies Schiller Flexner and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer who has spent the past three years as general counsel and chief corporate affairs officer at Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., an information technology services provider and large federal government contractor.

He will succeed retiring UnitedHealth legal chief Marianne Short, 69, the first female managing partner at Dorsey & ...