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Forrester Research Inc., Cambridge, Mass., estimates that 35,000 U.S. legal jobs will be moved offshore by 2010 and 79,000 will move by 2015. That's a small portion of the 1.2 million licensed lawyers in the U.S. as of June, according to the American Bar Association. But hiring is down now for junior lawyers in the U.S. as firms struggle with declining demand, says Michael Short, a law-firm consultant with Hildebrandt International Inc. The outsourcing industry "has built up now with cheap Indian lawyers who are pretty smart doing the sort of work done here by paralegals," says Talat Ansari, a partner at Kelley Drye & Warren LLP in New York. He says Kelley Drye uses lawyers in India to review documents in litigation and to standardize contracts. [...] Mr. Ansari says that since Indi…