Each team carries default practice areas, a primary area, and a default jurisdiction. These give new members a sensible starting point tuned to their group.
Where to set them
Open a team in the Teams card and edit its defaults:
- Default practice areas — the areas new members start following.
- Primary area (their Home landing area) — the area their Home opens on.
- Default jurisdiction — their starting jurisdiction (or "No default").
The golden rule: defaults seed, they never overwrite
This is the key behaviour to understand:
- When a new member joins a team, they're seeded with that team's defaults — but only if they haven't set their own areas yet. Someone joining with an existing LexLens account keeps their own setup.
- When you move a member to another team, their areas re-seed from the new team only if they hadn't customised them (i.e. they were still on the old team's defaults). A member who has personalised their areas keeps their choices.
In other words, team defaults are a helpful starting point, never a takeover. Members always remain in control of their own personalisation.
Why this matters for support
If a member says "my areas changed unexpectedly," it's almost always because they hadn't customised them and were moved between teams. If they had customised, their selections are preserved.