Developing the personal courage needed to exercise autonomous judgment in the face of conformance pressures is both a skill and a value that can be taught. In this session, we will explore professional practice dynamics that may contribute to wrongful obedience and wrongful conformity. We begin by discussing the seminal studies on obedience conducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s, which were recently partially replicated. While almost no one thinks they would engage in wrongful obedience, Milgram’s experiments and recent replications demonstrate that 2/3 of us would wrongfully obey. We will show video clips of Milgram’s original experiments demonstrating the painful impact of our innate willingness to obey. We will then apply what we know about obedience and conformity to the professional practice of law. Following the video, the audience will generate a list of situational variables that facilitate wrongful obedience in practice and even, unwittingly, in clinics thus acculturating students to defer to supervisors. The legal profession has become increasingly competitive and the impact of the recent depressed job market may contribute to our students feeling more like “employees” in a firm—wanting to please their supervisors—and less like independent professionals. As clinicians, we need to understand the conformance pressures that exist in the current state of the profession and establish a primary goal of teaching our students to work within hierarchical settings without losing a sense of their own autonomy and individual professional responsibility. The outcome of this workshop will be ideas for classroom simulations and teaching strategies that directly advance this goal.