Trudi Featherstone

Executive Partner & Accredited Mediator

Trudi Featherstone is very focused on taking the details and getting a resolution. She is a joy on the other side. I also really rate her as a mediator. She approaches the case like she really cares about the family. She adapts her style and reads the room.
- Chambers and Partners, 2027

Trudi Featherstone is personable, approachable and no-nonsense. She's a go-to mediator.
- Chambers and Partners, 2027

Trudi has been outstanding in every aspect of client service in my case. She has demonstrated exceptional ability to handle all matters, always explaining the issues clearly and strategically at each stage of the process. I feel she guided me with a steady, firm hand, balancing professionalism with genuine care and empathy.
- Chambers and Partners, 2027

Trudi Featherstone is hugely experienced, highly personable, provides a fantastic service to her clients, who benefit from her extensive expertise.
- Chambers and Partners, 2027

Trudi Featherstone handled our very complex case with exceptional skill, quickly getting to grips with the facts and demonstrating a deep understanding from the outset. She was consistently thoughtful and effective in suggesting appropriate mediation techniques and formats.
- Chambers and Partners, 2027

Trudi Featherstone is personable, approachable and no-nonsense. She's a go-to mediator.
- Chambers and Partners, 2027

Trudi has been outstanding in every aspect of client service in my case. She has demonstrated exceptional ability to handle all matters, always explaining the issues clearly and strategically at each stage of the process. I feel she guided me with a steady, firm hand, balancing professionalism with genuine care and empathy.
- Chambers and Partners, 2027

Trudi Featherstone is hugely experienced, highly personable, provides a fantastic service to her clients, who benefit from her extensive expertise.
- Chambers and Partners, 2027

Trudi Featherstone is very focused on taking the details and getting a resolution. She is a joy on the other side. I also really rate her as a mediator. She approaches the case like she really cares about the family. She adapts her style and reads the room.
- Chambers and Partners, 2027

Trudi Featherstone handled our very complex case with exceptional skill, quickly getting to grips with the facts and demonstrating a deep understanding from the outset. She was consistently thoughtful and effective in suggesting appropriate mediation techniques and formats.
- Chambers and Partners, 2027

Trudi Featherstone is an exceptional family law practitioner and a leading partner at Goodman Ray. She is known for her strategic insight, meticulous preparation, and sensitive handling of difficult cases. Combining technical excellence with a reassuring and client-focused manner, she inspires confidence and delivers consistently top-quality representation.
- Legal 500, 2027

Trudi Featherstone is one of the 'go-to' family mediators, particularly for tricky finance matters. Great knowledge, great manner, excellent value for money.
- Legal 500, 2027

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.

Significant Reported Cases

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

Professional Memberships

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

News

27 Nov 2023 •	A Divorce made in Heaven
24 Nov 2023 •	Judgment is now available in a complex financial remedies case conducted by Trudi Featherstone and Hannah Ward
28 Nov 2022 •	Court Backlogs Ruining Lives. Goodman Ray Solicitors Offer Free Advice During Good Divorce Week 2022
18 Dec 2025 •	Top Tips for Separated or Divorcing Parents Navigating Christmas

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