What Qualifies as Experience

If you been a law for 20 years doing various cases does that give you the same qualifications as a Toronto Personal Injury Lawyer who has been involved in a specifically personal injury cases for the last 5 years? The issue of experience is one key aspect lawyers like to emphasize, but from my experience in selecting personal injury lawyers in Toronto, I have always found that when a lawyer sticks to one form of law and has had success with clients in that one specific field, they do better than a lawyer who has more experience but has ventured in multiple disciplines.