Stephen D. Lentz

BORDER911 Foundation, INC.
President of the Board

Mr. Lentz will continue in his role as Senior Counsel and Partner at Anchor Legal Group, PLLC
with its main office in Virginia Beach, VA and Founding Partner and President of Anchor
Consulting Group, PLLC. His responsibilities at Border911 Foundation will be in addition to the
active role he is currently serving at Anchor Legal Group, PLLC.

Steve’s concentration is in the areas of complex business, serving clients in the areas of
corporate formation, complex business transactions, entertainment law, intellectual property,
non-profit law, foundation and church/ministry representation. He has counseled corporations
and non-profit organizations in both the United States and around the world.

Mr. Lentz is recognized as one of the top 5 “Non-Profit Authorities” in the U.S., representing
denominations, non-profits, and churches in all 50 states and every province in Canada. He has
also been recognized as one of the “Top Lawyers of Coastal Virginia” in 2018-2019, 2020-2021,
2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024 in the area of non-profit law by Coastal Virginia
magazine and recognized as a ”Lawyer of Distinction” in the area of Corporate and
Transactional Law in 2024.

Prior to being a Founding Partner of Anchor Legal Group, PLLC in Tidewater, Virginia, Steve
spent fifteen years in the television industry. From 1997-2000, he was the President of Middle
East Television. He was responsible for crafting the legal strategy to change the commercial
broadcast laws in Israel to permit non-Israeli television entities to offer advertising specifically to
Israel. Middle East Television became the largest super-station in the Middle East, reaching an
audience of over 100 million potential viewers in seventeen Arab countries and all of Israel.
Steve functioned as in-house counsel and appeared either in person or by counsel before the
Israeli Supreme Court six times in the fourteen months prior to 1999.

From 1993-1997, Steve was the President and CEO of Fit TV and was instrumental in building
the company into an attractive national niche cable network. As in-house counsel, he was
responsible for both employment and television broadcast law compliance as well as
entertainment contracts. During this time, he regularly dealt with issues related to interstate
commercial law and emerging cyber-law issues. He helped craft the strategy to sell the company
to Fox Sports in 1997.

 

From 1985-1993, Steve was the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales for International
Family Entertainment, where he managed advertising sales offices in New York, Chicago,
Detroit, Los Angeles, London and Hong Kong. He was part of the strategic management team
that led to International Family Entertainment’s successful IPO and later sale to Rupert Murdoch
for $1.8 billion.

 

Honors and Awards

  • Senior Lawyers Governing Board, Virginia State Bar: Stephen D. Lentz ( 2nd Judicial
    Circuit – Virginia Beach).
  • 2024 Lawyers of Distinction for Corporate and Transactional Law.
  • 2024 Top One Percent of Attorneys: National Association of Distinguished Counsel.
  • 2017-2018 Top Lawyers of Coastal Virginia, COVABIZ Magazine, January 2018.
  • 2018-2019 Top Lawyers of Coastal Virginia, COVABIZ Magazine, January 2019.
  • 2019-2020 Top Lawyers of Coastal Virginia, COVABIZ Magazine, January 2020.
  • Virginia Business Legal Elite – 2021.

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