Some of Pennsylvania’s largest law firms are reorganizing their practices into industry-targeted groups to address the recession anxieties and opportunities of their largest institutional clients, local firm leaders said in recent interviews.

Ballard Spahr went public last week with a “distressed assets and opportunities” group, while Duane Morris, which has made an effort to increase its energy clientele in 2022, now seeks to cross-sell real estate and environmental legal counsel to energy clients, who leaders at the firm say are increasingly interested in the divesting of property assets.