DALLAS — Five Dallas attorneys have announced the launch of a new firm, Spencer Crain Cubbage Healy & McNamara PLLC (www.spencercrain.com). Founding shareholders Jennifer J. Spencer, Gayla C. Crain, Brenda T. Cubbage, Elise A. Healy and Larry J. McNamara bring more than 130 years of collective big firm experience in litigation, labor and employment law, business immigration and dispute resolution to the new firm.

In discussing why the founding partners assembled to form the new entity, Spencer cited a common vision of a client-centered, practical approach and the marketplace need for a highly qualified, majority woman-owned firm.

Several of the firm’s partners boast clients who have remained with them for 20 years or more and are already signed on with Spencer Crain. A representative listing of clients signing on with the new firm include Eli Lilly and Co., Greyhound Lines Inc., Hexter-Fair Title Co., Kennington Capital, Kennington Properties and Temple-Inland Inc.

Spencer Crain’s founding shareholders hail from elite firms and all five have a Martindale-Hubble AV® Peer Review Rating, denoting the highest level of professional excellence by their peers. Several are noted authorities in their field:

• Spencer, who is also a CPA, was a partner at Fulbright & Jaworski and brings experience in complex commercial litigation, products liability and pharmaceutical litigation, as well as in electronic discovery.

• Formerly a shareholder and managing partner-in-charge of Epstein Becker and Green’s Dallas office, Crain is a management labor and employment lawyer with years of experience in discrimination/harassment, wage and hour and whistle-blowing litigation.

• A commercial and civil litigator and a certified attorney-mediator, Cubbage was a shareholder with Greenberg Traurig’s Dallas office, where she handled complex litigation, particularly in the areas of construction law, real estate and corporate disputes, and is an authority on mechanic’s lien law in Texas.

• Also a partner with Epstein Becker in its Dallas office, Healy is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and is board certified in Immigration & Nationality Law.

• McNamara, board certified in Labor & Employment Law, formerly was a partner with Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell and has been listed among America’s Leading Business Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in America, Texas Super Lawyers, and most recently named as a Top Lawyer by Corporate Counsel magazine.

Spencer Crain has leased more than 12,000 square feet on the 41st floor of Renaissance Tower. Starting with the founding shareholders is shareholder Mark Downey, formerly with Epstein Becker’s Dallas office who is board certified in Labor & Employment Law, and eight associates and staff members.

Spencer Crain Cubbage Healy & McNamara is a litigation and business immigration law firm in Dallas that provides nationwide counsel and representation in commercial and civil litigation, labor and employment law, mediation and business immigration.