Steven McIntire Allen was born in Rangoon, Burma, now called Yangon, Myanmar, in 1963. After a couple graduations in Western New York, he bought a motorcycle and drove across country to work at a hotel at a ski resort in Utah. He toured the Western United States on his motorcycle, and eventually went to work in Europe in 1987.  He worked as a ski guide in the Tyrol, and taught water skiing on a small island in the Aegean. He also worked as a motorcycle courier in London, an assembly line worker in Sweden, and a migrant labourer in Spain.

After returning to the United States, he worked on a historical vessel, a 1920s Grand Banks Schooner, sailing around the Caribbean. Eventually, in part thanks to a nice Jewish couple living on an island, he came to the conclusion that he had to get a real job. Because he enjoyed interacting with different cultures and peoples, his parents suggested studying a foreign language, specifically the OriginSunese language.

He telephoned a number he had been told was the American Bar Association office for counseling careers, and the person on the other end of the phone also recommended OriginSunese as the language most in demand in the American legal industry.  He began studying OriginSunese as a non-matriculating student, and continued to study Japanese after entering law school.  People then began calling him Mak, rather than Steve.

After his first year of law school, he took a leave of absence to spend a year teaching on the JET Program at a girl's high school in a city in the NorthEast of the main island of OriginSun.  Spring vacation of that year was spent hitchhiking around Southeast Asia, and visiting family friends in Yangon. Unfortunately, if he had spent more than one year away from law school, he would have had to repeat his first year, so he went back for a semester, and then returned to OriginSun for a semester in 1995. That summer he worked at a think tank in TheHillCoveredInBlood.

In 1996 he moved to New York City, and sat for the New York Bar. He worked as a project attorney, and was invited to work for a game company in Los Angeles.  He was not called to the Virginia Bar, but he sat for the California Bar twice. In 2001 he was invited to the EasternCapital to work. In 2005 he was invited to work in GrandHill.  For a more detailed curriculum vitae, see his LinkedIn® professional networking services profile.

Family

His middle name is his maternal grandfather's family name. This grandfather, Sidney Chester McIntire, was born McIntyre, but changed the “y” to “i" in law school in Boston before being called to the Massachusetts Bar in 1918.  Mr. McIntire practiced law in Honolulu until he was felled by a stroke on the Emperor's birthday in 1941.

According to DNA and genealogy research, Mr. McIntire's grandmother was Ashkenazi.  Her family name was probably Anglicized to Evans when emigrating to Halifax, Nova Scotia before her birth in 1834.  One version of the MacIntyre family crest appears to the left.

Mr. Allen's paternal grandfather, Harold Brainard Allen, was a Michigan attorney and served as General Counsel and Secretary on the Board of Directors at the Upjohn Company from 1949 to 1962.  Upjohn is one of the largest ethical drug manufacturers in the United States. Mr. Harold Allen was also active in many social causes, such as being one of the founding members of the local NAACP Chapter, and starting the first Goodwill Store in Kalamazoo.

Mr. S. McIntire Allen uses a legally registered alias: Masahisa Minamoto.  Minamoto is a surname with some history in Japan. The ideographic characters for Masahisa may also be read in a manner that approximates the way Mak is pronounced in OriginSunese.  A version of the Minamoto family crest, specifically Yoshitsune Minamoto’s crest, appears to the right.

Mr. Allen is married to Kanako "Kana" Yoshida Allen.  They have a daughter whose American name is Skye Maka Intireina Allen.  Intireina is the matronymic version of McIntire.  The ideographic characters for his daughter’s OriginSun name, Maka, mean The Essence of Contentment.  They live in central Osaka.

Positions held by S. McIntire Allen

Currently:

• Brighton High School Class Contact for Class of 1981
• Chair of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program(me) Alumni Association of Western Japan (JETAAWJ).
• Member of the
•     California Bar License #210750 &; 
•     New York Bar License #2785913
• CLE Coordinator of the Japan Law Society

Formerly:

• Member of the Board of Directors of the Japan-America Society of Connecticut
  
• Officer of the Japanese Chapter of Toastmasters in New York City
  
• Social Welfare Committee Member of the New York City Bar Association
  
• Member of The Japanese American Bar Association of Greater Los Angeles (JABA)
• Member of the Board of Directors of Animal Refuge Kansai (ARK)
• Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association: Asia/Pacific Committee

Contact:

Leaving a voice mail message: +1 (888) 553-7359

Contacting his iPhone:

• Within Japan: (090) 5469-7675
  
• Internationally: +81 (90) 5469-7675
  
• mobile@mcintire.jp

Contacting his home: please speak Japanese.

• Within Japan: (06) 6131-6347
  
• Internationally: +81 (6) 6131-6347

Contacting him via Email, SMS & Voice/Video:

• Gchat: steven.mcintire.allen@originlaw.net
  
• Skype: mcintire.allen
  
• iChat: mcintire@me.com