> Forcing the company to comply with legal standards is often literally the job of a corporate attorney in an employment or compliance department.

Compliance departments may include attorneys, but plenty of people aren't. The force comes not because of their attorney-ness, but because they're part of a department tasked with enforcement. Lawyers in general definitely are not at a company to enforce the law.

> And the primary concern isn't to avoid "going to jail,"

Allow me to introduce you to the notion of hyperbole.