Almost nine months after bringing back one of its most prominent partners, Milwaukee-based Am Law 200 firm Michael Best & Friedrich announced Wednesday its hire of a new chief operating officer in Truda Chow.

Chow, most recently a senior consultant at LawVision Group in Chicago, will officially start her now position at Michael Best in early August. The 221-lawyer firm offered her the role and asked the longtime legal executive to take “a strategic viewpoint of operations, much more than an administrative viewpoint,” Chow said.