Shirley Kuhlmann has gone in-house at Collegium Pharmaceutical Inc. after serving as the specialty pharmaceutical company’s outside counsel at Pepper Hamilton.

Kuhlmann has been named executive vice president, general counsel and secretary at the Canton, Massachusetts-based drug company—the first person to hold the newly created role, according to a Mar. 19 news release announcing the move. Kuhlmann will oversee all of Collegium’s legal and compliance matters.