In 2002, his office was the first in Massachusetts to win a murder conviction in a case that lacked a victim's body.

He won a larger verdict in a prior case.

First he won the right to shelter for men, then for women and finally, in a case that included the Legal Aid Society, for families.

He won a $100,000 payout, then a headline-generating sum, in a case involving a boy who had lost his hearing in a botched operation.

Who wins in a case like that?

I hated to do it because I had won a clear victory on the law and the facts in a politically motivated case.

It came seven weeks after many of the same plaintiffs won a ruling in a separate but related case before a federal appeals court in San Francisco.

A military contractor won a partial victory in a case involving the export of a chemical that ended up in Iraqi cluster bombs.

Hisense Kelon also won damages of 30.15 million yuan in a civil case against Gu.