RICH BAER, the former chief legal officer of UnitedHealth Group, has jumped to Liberty Interactive Corporation, where he is now general counsel, replacing CHARLES TANABE, who retired at the end of 2012.

The University of Michigan hired TIMOTHY LYNCH as its new vice president and GC; he replaces SUELLYN SCARNECCHIA, who resigned in March 2012 and took a faculty position in the university’s law school.