Sonya D. Naar of Chicago and Julie L. Cibilskis of Aurora will be honored next month as ISBA Young Lawyers of the Year. Their awards will be presented on behalf of the Young Lawyers Division during the Annual Meeting at The Abbey on Lake Geneva.

Sonya Naar, a partner in the litigation practice group at DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, was nominated by the principal of Barry Elementary School, where she volunteers in the Constitutional Rights Foundation's Lawyer in the Classroom program.

Many of the students she encounters are from Hispanic families who live below the poverty line and are unfamiliar with American society and values. She received an Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Making a Difference Award last year for the inspiration she provides.

Naar chaired the 2005 Night to Dream Auction, which raised $160,000 for the Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation, where she is a board member.

At DLA Piper, she is involved in a New Perimeter project to develop a legal system in Kosovo, and the Juvenile Justice Project on representing children in Cook County courts and transitioning students from the juvenile system back to school.

Julie Cibilskis, a civil litigation partner in Lindner, Speers & Reuland, was nominated by Jan Wade, executive director of the Kane County Bar Association.

A member of the association's board of managers, Cibilskis will be installed next month as secretary-treasurer. She was named Kane County's Outstanding New Lawyer last year.

She has chaired the New Lawyers Divi–sion, and the continuing legal education and golf outing committees. She has headed the Lawyer in the Classroom Program since 2003.

In addition to her bar activities, Cibilskis serves on the lay board of trustees of Rosary High School, and she was coach of the Annunciation Parish School girls' volleyball teams for five years.