Franco A. Coladipietro, a resident of Bloomingdale and an attorney with the Chicago law firm of Amari & Locallo, is one of two lawyers who have been named "Young Lawyer of the Year" by the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA).

The other winner is Betty Y. Jang, of Hinshaw & Culbertson's Champaign office.

Selected by the ISBA Young Lawyers Division (YLD), the two were honored at the awards luncheon June 18, during the Annual Meeting at The Abbey in Fontana, Wis.

A member of the ISBA Assembly, Coladipietro is the immediate past chair of the Young Lawyers Division Council. He is co-founder of an annual YLD holiday party at which more than $100,000 has been raised for the ISBA Children's Assistance Program of support for waiting rooms in courthouses around the state.

Coladipietro has received an ISBA Board of Governors Award and a Community Service Award, as well as a Distinguished Service Award from The John Marshall Law School Alumni Association.

The incoming third vice president of the Justinian Society and past treasurer, he was named one of the "Top Forty Lawyers Under 40" by Law Bulletin Publishing Co.