Trudi Featherstone

Executive Partner & Accredited Mediator

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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. Patient, kind, and supportive, she helps her clients to feel heard as well as to focus on how to reach agreements where possible.

- Legal 500, 2025

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.

- Legal 500, 2025

Trudi Featherstone is known for her wisdom and thoroughness. A very experienced and accomplished mediator.

- Legal 500, 2025

Trudi Featherstone is fantastic; she really cares about her clients.

- Legal 500, 2025

Trudi Featherstone is known for her wisdom and thoroughness. A very experienced and accomplished mediator.

- Legal 500, 2025

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 in Chambers and Partners, 2023

She was a no-nonsense lawyer with a huge amount of integrity and the ability to really show empathy.

- Trudi Featherstone in Chambers and Partners, 2023

She is tenacious, tough, persistent and serves her client's needs.

- Trudi Featherstone in Chambers and Partners, 2023

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.

- Trudi Featherstone in Chambers and Partners, 2023

She uses her mediation and collaborative skills in her litigation cases and will always try to seek a sensible outcome.

- Trudi Featherstone in Chambers and Partners, 2023

Trudi Featherstone fights her clients' corner and they trust her experience and judgement.

- Trudi Featherstone in Chambers and Partners, 2023

About

Trudi heads the Divorce and Matrimonial Finance Team and has been a Partner at Goodman Ray since May 2000. She is a Resolution trained and accredited Family Mediator who mediates on all issues (children and financial matters) and a collaboratively trained lawyer.

Trudi specialises in the financial aspects of divorce, separation and relationship breakdown. Trudi regularly acts for high net worth individuals and provides advice in financially complex cases involving complex private company structures, Trust structures, private equity funds and pensions.  Many cases have an international element, involving overseas trusts and corporate vehicles which have potentially significant tax implications. She is recognised for her highly organised and meticulous approach to this complex work.  She has a particular expertise in dealing with financial claims for unmarried parents and their children and regularly acts for mothers and fathers in Schedule 1 cases and for unmarried couples to help separate their property and finances (Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustee Act). She is viewed as an effective and formidable litigator and praised for providing excellent and well thought out advice.

Trudi advises clients on children matters – child arrangement orders and leave to remove applications which complements the finance work and provides her clients with complete advice on their family situation in a holistic way.

Trudi is a Resolution Accredited Specialist in Advanced and Complex Financial disputes and Private Children Law. Trudi is a trained Collaborative Lawyer and a Resolution accredited Mediator able to conduct MIAMS and a member of the Family Mediation Council. She focusses on the resolution of cases without the need to go to the court and discusses all non-court dispute resolution routes with her clients at their first meeting.  Her focus is to resolve and settle for the benefit of her clients.

Trudi is included in City wealth’s Leaders list as a prominent figure in family and matrimonial in its Honours list.

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  • 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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