DLA Piper has hired former Verizon Business Group SVP and GC John Frantz, the firm announced Tuesday, as a partner in the firm's telecom practice.

Frantz's move to DLA Piper's New York office marks at least the fifth Big Law hire of a senior in-house lawyer this week, following moves to Husch Blackwell, Squire Patton Boggs, Sheppard Mullin, and Davis Wright Tremaine.