Over 20 years experience in Personal Injury work both for Claimants and Defendants.

Former Senior Partner of a Coventry based mixed Claimant/Defendant Personal Injury Firm described in the Chambers Legal 500 as "the best mixed Claimant/Defendant Personal Injury firm in the midlands".

Later headhunted to set up a Midlands Office for a substantial national Defendant Personal Injury firm where he was later elected Chairman of the Executive Management Board. Frustrated by the constraints of a large bureaucratic practice he returned to his Claimant roots in 2000 when he joined Smith Jones (formerly known as Farnworths) as Managing Partner and at the same time established the Kenilworth Office.

Since joining Smith Jones he has been pivotal in transforming the firm from a mixed general practice into a specialised Personal Injury and Litigation Practice.

Peter is a member of The Law Society Personal Injury Panel, The Legal Complaints Service Solicitors Negligence Panel, the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and the Motor Accident Solicitors Society and a fellow of the College of Personal Injury Lawyers.

Still a "hands on" lawyer, Peter is involved in a wide range of fee earning work from accident cases and solicitors' negligence to costs cases.

Nicknamed "The Orbital Grinder" because of his relentless approach to resolving problems, he describes himself as a "born again anarchist" with a distaste for the obsessive bureaucracy of many leading law firms.

Hobbies include rugby, judo, walking and taxi driving (his four children).

Alec Graham graduated in law with honours from Manchester University in 1974. He was first articled at Berrymans Lace Mawer in Manchester. After two years at Berrymans, Alec was then articled to Ted Gee. Then followed fifteen years at Farnworth and Watson, interrupted only by a short sojourn at Keoghs!

Alec specialises in personal injury litigation especially accidents at work. He also deals with occupational disease claims, employment law matters and general civil litigation.

Alec is a member of both the Law Society Personal Injury Panel and The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.

Hobbies include watching Rugby and Cricket and the occasional round of Golf !

Dermot graduated from the University of Nottingham in 1982. He immediately joined Steele, Ford and Newton and worked his way up to partner before, when feeling like a change of direction, joined Smith Jones (formerly known as Farnworths) in 1988 to head up the Family Law department.

Dermot is now recognised as an expert in Personal Injury law.

The hobbies he admits to are football (watching rather than playing) and occasional (very bad) golf!

After attending Lancaster Royal Grammar School and completing a law degree at Newcastle University, Paul was admitted as a solicitor in 1984.

He was a founding partner in SmithJones (formerly known as Farnworth Solicitors) in May 1988, initially working on crime and matrimonial, before moving onto licensing, civil and commercial litigation, professional negligence and personal injury litigation.

Paul currently specialises in Professional Negligence and Personal Injury. He has recently recovered in excess of £350,000 for a client in a claim for breach of contracts against one of the worlds largest insurers.

Craig Bibby was appointed partner at Smith Jones on 1 September 2007. He started life in the legal profession over 18 years ago under the old YTS scheme for a firm of solicitors in Nelson. He devoted his time to personal injury claims for the firm and built up his own client base before joining Smith Jones, formerly Farnworths , in 1994. He then decided to take the long route of qualifying as a solicitor part time over a period of almost 9 years and at the same time increasing his experience and client base.

Craig specialises in fast track RTA cases including low velocity impact claims as well as employers liability, accidents abroad, slip and trip claims and general litigation matters. He is a member of APIL and The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers. His hobbies include squash, occasional football and making a bad attempt at playing golf.