Greg Smith graduated from Sydney University with an LLB he practised as a solicitor from admission in 1973. Greg was admitted to the Bar in 1987 and appointed a NSW Crown Prosecutor in the same year. He was appointed the Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions in April of 2002. Before leaving the DPP Greg was appointed a Senior Counsel on the 29th of September 2004.

Greg was elected as the Member for Epping on the 24th of March 2007 and soon after was appointed as the Liberal Party’s Shadow Attorney General and Shadow Minister for Justice and Shadow Minister for Juvenile Justice in the New South Wales Parliament.

In March 2011 Greg was re-elected to the seat of Epping for a second term and in April he was appointed Attorney General and Minister for Justice in the incoming O'Farrell Government. Greg is the State's 55^th Attorney General and continues to serve as a Minister in the NSW Government.