Lucy Bickford is a senior wealth strategist for CIBC Private Wealth with over 10 years of industry experience. In this role, she works closely with clients and their team of advisors to develop and implement comprehensive wealth transfer strategies as part of CIBC Private Wealth’s integrated wealth management process.

Prior to joining the firm, Lucy was an attorney at ArentFox Schiff LLP, where she focused her practice on estate planning and estate and trust administration for high-net-worth individuals. In that role, Lucy advised individual clients, multi-generation family groups and fiduciaries on a wide range of estate and trust related issues. She prepared comprehensive estate plans to achieve wealth planning goals, transfer tax strategies and business succession planning.

Lucy earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in cultural anthropology from Duke University and a Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.