Although Roy Hardin and his team scored a $113 million jury verdict for a client that makes syringes, he downplays the importance of the large dollar figure.

“The money is the money,” says Hardin, a partner in Locke Lord in Dallas, about the Sept. 19 win in Retractable Technologies Inc., et al. v. Becton Dickinson and Co. For Retractable Technologies Inc. and its founder, the bigger point of the litigation was health-care providers’ safety, he says.