Trudi Featherstone

• “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.

• Y v Z [2023] EWFC 205
• Law Gazette: Litigation friend ordered to pay £42,000 costs for ‘wholly inadequate’ performance. 
• ABC v PM & Anor [2015] EWFC 32 – Important judgment for finance practitioner
• Finch v Baker [2021] EWCA Civ 72

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