$45.2 billion global security company Lockheed Martin has named Maryanne Lavan as the new senior vice president and general counsel. Lavan, who currently serves as Lockheed Martin’s vice president of Internal Audit, succeeds James Comey, whose departure from the company was announced earlier in June.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...