Having worked with many lawyers... for the most part, yeah. Legal wants you to behave ethically at all times, not because they necessarily have some ideological commitment to ethics (though some do), but because it keeps the company out of lawsuits.

The overwhelming goal of a company's legal department is "don't get sued", followed by "if sued, lose as little money/leverage as possible".

In general the lawyer in the room is going to be far more risk-averse than the engineers, product people, sales people, or marketers.

The trick is that outside of some limited circumstances the legal department at companies are not the final say. Many lawyers who "go in house" (i.e., quit a private outside firm and go work directly for a company) find this frustrating. They come into a room, say "don't do that", and then a few weeks/months/years later someone did it and now they have to prepare for a lawsuit.