Offshoring Legal Services?

In Limiting Litigation Costs: Techniques to Consider Hildebrandt International outlines some obvious, and some not-so-obvious, strategies for reducing litigation costs. Among them:

Unbundling discovery activities

Offshoring commodity legal work

Competitively bidding groups of cases

Giving law firms a chance to rethink their bids

Budgeting several months into the future with phased budgets

I'll buy everything but sending "routine" legal work offshore. The article states:

BusinessWeek recently cited a Forrester Research study that predicted that by 2005, close to 15,000 legal jobs will disappear in the United States because of offshore competition.

I just don't see it. Maybe I don't have a good vision of what kind of "commodity" legal work we're talking about here, but I'm having trouble believing that consumers of legal services in the U.S. are comfortable with farming any significant portion of their legal work out to low-wage foreign lawyers. Am I being naive?