Alén Takhsh   Alén Takhsh is an Illinois-licensed attorney with The Law Office of Robert Dekelaita, specializing in Immigration, Family, and Business law in Skokie, Illinois. Alén is also an advisor to the Assyrian Chaldean Syriac Student Movement and a chapter leader of the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans in Chicago.   Alén received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from The University of Chicago and his Juris Doctor from The John Marshall Law School in 2002 and 2007, respectively.   In law school, Alén received the Third Best Oralist award at the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition and an Honorable Mention for the Respondent’s Memorandum at the Vis International Commercial Arbitration Competition in Vienna, Austria. Additionally, he served as the Vice President of the Middle Eastern Law Student Association, was the Candidacy Editor for the Journal of Computer and Information Law, and was a Federal Judicial Extern for the Honorable Samuel Der-Yeghiayan of the Northern District of Illinois.     Alén was born and lived in Tehran, Iran, for nine years, spent three years in Germany, and has resided in the Chicagoland area since 1992. He is fluent in Assyrian, Farsi, and German.