Trudi Featherstone

Executive Partner & Accredited Mediator

  • Legal 500 2026 Leading Partner 1@2x
  • Chambers 26 Tf
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I wanted to say a sincere thank you for all your help and support in preparing for and attending the hearing last Wednesday. It was a very stressful process, and I am genuinely grateful for the time, care, and clarity you both provided throughout. It has made a huge difference to me and to my daughter. 

- A client (Schedule 1 and LSFO)

Trudi Featherstone is a fabulous mediator. She is really sensible, really pragmatic and really takes on board the individuals she's dealing with.

- Chambers and Partners, 2026

Trudi Featherstone is great in mediation in complicated money cases. She's such good value for money as she's an experienced partner. She is good at building a relationship with clients very quickly.

- Chambers and Partners, 2026

Trudi Featherstone is simply one of the best mediators in the country. Trudi is knowledgeable, dynamic and compassionate, and she's always seeking to achieve the best outcome for her clients.

- Chambers and Partners, 2026

Trudi is a caring mediator with high standards who holds the space for clients

- Legal 500, 2026

Trudi Featherstone is innovative, solution-driven driven and down-to-earth. She is vastly experienced and one of London's elite mediators.

- Legal 500, 2026

Trudi Featherstone is a really good mediator- a class act.

- Legal 500, 2026

Trudi Featherstone is simply one of the best mediators in the country. Trudi is knowledgeable, dynamic and compassionate, and she's always seeking to achieve the best outcome for her clients.

- Chambers High Net Worth 2025

Trudi Featherstone is great on mediation in complicated money cases. She's such good value for money as she's an experienced partner. She is good at building a relationship with clients very quickly.

- Chambers High Net Worth 2025

Trudi Featherstone is a fabulous mediator. She is really sensible, really pragmatic and really takes on board the individuals she's dealing with.

- Chambers High Net Worth 2025

Trudi Featherstone is a brilliant lawyer and Goodman Ray are an excellent firm who supported what was a very difficult few years for me. Trudi knows the law so well but more than that she is kind, empathetic, calm in crisis and highly responsive. I am so grateful for the advice, support and care I received. I highly recommend Trudi and Goodman Ray.

- Client of Trudi Featherstone

Trudi came highly recommended to me as a Divorce, Family and Finance lawyer at a vulnerable time of my life, with a very young child. I found Trudi to be extremely knowledgeable, always professional, personable and caring. She helped me navigate getting the best possible outcome for me and my son. My son is now an adult, yet over the years Trudi has continued to provide advice when asked or made introductions to support, and took interest in our welfare; that she does is amazing and I am grateful to this day. A brilliant Lawyer with a heart too! I am not sure if Trudi knows how much her dedication to her cases particularly complex cases, has transformed lives of others in a significant and positive way. Thank you Trudi for all that you did and continue to do; you are a superstar! The legal profession is better for having you in it, to continue the good fight. I cannot recommend Trudi highly enough.

- T.A, client of Trudi Featherstone

About

Trudi Featherstone heads the Divorce and Matrimonial Finance Team and has been a Partner at Goodman Ray since May 2000. With over 25 years’ experience, she advises on the full range of issues arising from relationship breakdown, including complex financial matters and children. A Resolution-trained and accredited Child Inclusive Mediator, Trudi is able to see children directly in mediation. She mediates on both financial and children issues and is also a collaboratively trained lawyer.

Trudi specialises in all aspects of family separation, acting for a significant number of high-net-worth individuals in both financial remedy cases and children matters. Her financial work includes complex private company and trust structures, private equity funds and sophisticated asset portfolios, often with an international dimension involving cross-border trusts, corporate vehicles and significant tax considerations. She is recognised for her meticulous preparation, strategic thinking and clear, practical advice.

Alongside this, Trudi has a well-established children practice. She advises parents on all issues relating to their children, including child arrangement orders, prohibited steps and specific issue orders, and leave to remove applications involving relocation. She is also particularly experienced in acting for unmarried parents in Schedule 1 Children Act applications and regularly advises unmarried couples on property and financial disputes under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act (TOLATA). Her dual expertise in finance and children matters enables her to offer clients holistic, joined-up advice on every aspect of their family situation.

Trudi is a Resolution Accredited Specialist in both Advanced and Complex Financial Disputes and Private Children Law. She is a Resolution-accredited Child Inclusive Mediator, able to conduct MIAMs, and is a member of the Family Mediation Council. Trudi is committed to resolving disputes constructively and explores all non-court dispute resolution options with clients at the outset to help them achieve the best possible outcome.

Trudi is recognised as a leading practitioner within the profession. She is included in City Wealth’s Leaders Honours List as a prominent figure in family and matrimonial law and has been shortlisted in the City Wealth Magic Circle Awards 2025 for Family Lawyer of the Year. She is also Recommended in Spear’s 500 2025.

Directories

  • Trudi Featherstone is fantastic; she really cares about her clients.”
  • Trudi Featherstone is known for her wisdom and thoroughness. A very experienced and accomplished mediator.”
  • Trudi Featherstone provides strong, sensible and no-nonsense advice. She is forward thinking and respected by her peers. As an experienced mediator, she has the optimum blend of sensibility and empathy, enabling her to navigate clients through their often complex emotional influences. She expertly guides the clients through the mediation process and will find some common ground.”
  • Trudi Featherstone is a fantastic mediator. Patient, kind, and supportive, she helps her clients to feel heard as well as to focus on how to reach agreements where possible.”
  • Trudi Featherstone and Thomas Brownrigg are very personable and knowledgeable, and are able to guide their clients with NCDR principles to a reasoned and fair result.”

Legal 500, 2025


  • Trudi Featherstone is a fantastic mediator with a real empathy for clients and desire to do her absolute best to reach resolution for them.”
  • Trudi Featherstone is meticulous in her approach with clients, consideration of the issues in hand and the subsequent preparation of documentation. She is fast becoming London’s preeminent mediator.”

Legal 500, 2024


  • Trudi Featherstone maintains a strong reputation as a litigator and mediator who handles children matters. She represents clients in a range of matters including cohabitation and jurisdictional disputes. Her experience also covers high-value financial remedy and Schedule 1 proceedings.”
  • Trudi Featherstone fights her clients’ corner and they trust her experience and judgement.”
  • “She uses her mediation and collaborative skills in her litigation cases and will always try to seek a sensible outcome.”
  • Trudi has always been attentive, honest and clear in her advice to me. She has guided me through difficult negotiations and decisions with a view to reaching a practical, working, long-term solution.”
  • She is tenacious, tough, persistent and serves her client’s needs.”
  • “She was a no-nonsense lawyer with a huge amount of integrity and the ability to really show empathy.”

Chambers and Partners, 2023


  • Trudi has an exceptionally strong insight into the overall strategy that a financial remedy case requires as well as an appreciation of the tactics needed to execute it. She possesses a powerful grasp of the complex financial issues that ‘big money’ cases routinely present. Trudi has a tireless work ethic which she combines with an ability to be flexible in her approach to different clients, a strong sense of fairness and personal understanding of the human characters involved.”

Citywealth, 2016


  • Trudi Featherstone’s financial practice at Goodman Ray is ‘one of the best in the field.” Legal 500, 2014
  • Trudi Featherstone leads on the finance side.” Legal 500 2013
  • “Effective and formidable litigator.” Chambers & Partners, 2011
  • She is included in the City Wealth Leaders List 2013 as a Leading Lawyer and prominent figure in Family & Matrimonial Law. She is listed as an expert in the Legal Expert Directory.

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Professional Memberships

  • Member of Resolution
  • Member of Family Mediators Association
  • Member of Family Mediation Council
  • Member of IPOD

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