Trudi Featherstone

Executive Partner & Accredited Mediator

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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

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.

- Client of Trudi Featherstone

Trudi Featherstone is a fantastic mediator with a real empathy for clients and desire to do her absolute best to reach resolution for them.

- Client of Trudi Featherstone

About

Trudi leads the Divorce and Matrimonial Finance Team and has been a partner at Goodman Ray since May 2000 as head of the Matrimonial Team. She is a Resolution trained Family Mediator who can mediate on all issues (children and financial matters) and a collaboratively trained lawyer.

Specialising in the financial aspects of divorce and separation, Trudi regularly acts for high net worth individuals and provides advice in financially complex cases involving complex private company structures, private equity funds, EBT’s, 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 claims and Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustee Act applications for cohabitees.  She is viewed as an effective and formidable litigator and praised for providing excellent and well thought out advice.

Trudi also advises clients on Private Children Matters – Child arrangement orders and increasingly leave to remove applications.  This complements the finance work and provides clients with complete advice on their family situation in a holistic way.

She is an accredited member of the Law Society Family Law Panel and is a Resolution Accredited Specialist in Advanced and Complex Financial disputes and Private Children Law work. Trudi is a trained Collaborative Lawyer and Mediator able to conduct MIAMS and a member of the Family Mediation Council.

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 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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