Ms. Helen Waifong Yu

Flanagan Law and Mediation LLC

Helen Yu Flanagan has been practicing law in Augusta, Georgia for over thirty years. She began her legal career as an Assistant District Attorney for Augusta Judicial Circuit in 1990. For the past thirty years, Helen has engaged in private practice with primary focus on Family Law issues.

In 2018, the firm begin to offer Mediation services to clients and local attorneys.  Currently Helen is a full time mediator, having mediated over 400 cases, both in domestic and civil matters.

Born in Hong Kong, Helen immigrated to New York City in 1978. In 1987, Helen obtained her B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University School of Engineering in New York City. She obtained her law degree in 1990 from Georgia State University, School of Law. Helen is admitted to practice law in the State and Superior Court of Georgia, Court of Appeals of Georgia, Supreme Court of Georgia, District Court of the Southern District of Georgia, and to the Court of Military Appeal. Helen has served and continued to serve on the Executive Board of the Augusta Family Law Bar since 2009. Helen was the Chair of the Augusta Family Bar Association 2017- 2018 and was a past President of the Augusta Federal Bar Association.