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For law firms currently using Scorpion
Leaving Scorpion? Build your exit plan before you cancel.
A website move is not the same thing as a hosting change. Scorpion says it provides eligible departing clients with static files, design assets, and content, but not the underlying CMS. If your firm wants to leave, plan what has to be rebuilt, what should stay the same, and how to protect the pages and lead paths that matter.
Better Call Spencer is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Scorpion.
Typical contract
12 months for web and SEO, per Scorpion’s FAQ
What transfers
Domain, content, imagery, key accounts
What doesn’t
The CMS. A rebuild is required.
Information checked
October 28, 2026
Your website content and your website platform are not the same thing.
What Scorpion’s public FAQ says, next to what your firm should verify in its own agreement. Source: scorpion.co/faq, checked October 28, 2026.
01
Ownership
The FAQ says: you own your website after the contract term is complete, and the domain, content, and imagery are yours. You don’t own the underlying system, in the way nobody owns WordPress.
Verify: your signed agreement’s definition of “complete,” and whether any licensed stock, design, or template assets have their own terms.
02
What you receive, and what you don’t
The FAQ says: after fulfilling contractual obligations, clients receive the website’s static files, design assets, and content. The CMS does not transfer; you’ll need another vendor to rebuild on a platform of your choosing, such as WordPress.
Verify: the format and completeness of the files, whether original media is included, and what “design assets” means in practice. Ask for a written inventory, and budget for a rebuild, not a migration. Static files are a reference, not a working site.
03
Account transfers
The FAQ says: key accounts, including Google Analytics/GA4, Local Services Ads, and social accounts, transfer back after contractual requirements are fulfilled.
Verify: who the current admin or owner is on each account today, including Search Console, Google Ads, Google Business Profile, and call tracking, which the FAQ does not list.
A rebuild involves more than copying the homepage.
Six things that have to be rebuilt or tested. A crawl of the public site can’t confirm historical conversions, private integrations, or ownership of licensed assets.
01
Pages and URLs
Practice-area, location, blog, and attorney pages preserved where they earn it, with a redirect map for anything that changes.
02
Metadata and internal links
Titles, canonicals, headings, on-page copy, navigation, and schema carried over or deliberately improved.
03
Forms and calls
Intake notifications, CRM routing, call-tracking number ownership and forwarding, click-to-call. The things that make the phone ring.
04
Search systems
Search Console, analytics, redirects, sitemaps, and indexation rules set up on the new site before launch, not after.
05
Advertising and listings
Paid landing pages, Google Ads, LSAs, Business Profile links, and conversion tracking repointed and tested.
06
Launch QA
Responsive behavior, page functionality, accessibility, uptime, and monitoring for the weeks after cutover.
Keep the look, change the platform, or rethink the website?
Three legitimate options. Changing platforms doesn’t require changing your visual brand, and nobody should promise you a pixel-perfect copy either; licensed design components aren’t always transferable.
Preserve. Keep the recognizable design and content where rights and technical constraints allow. Least disruption to a brand people already know.
Rebuild selectively. Keep what works, fix the functionality or conversion problems that pushed you toward leaving in the first place.
Redesign. If the current experience is underperforming, the move is the cheapest moment to fix it. Decide that from data, not from being tired of the old site.
See an option before you sign a new website contract.
If the project is a fit, I can arrange a private first-pass preview of your site, built by a developer I’ve vetted under my engagement. It’s built for evaluation, not public launch. Forms, tracking, redirects, licensed assets, and production testing get their own written scope.
Brian: scopes the project, sets the priorities, manages the build, and handles the SEO side of the migration. Your single point of contact.
The developer: a specialist I’ve worked with before, building and testing to that scope under my engagement. You don’t manage them; I do.
I don’t write the code. Development is performed by a specialist developer working under my engagement; you contract with Better Call Spencer and deal with one person. SEO oversight of the migration is scoped into the same proposal.
What to request and verify before leaving Scorpion.
In this order. Most of it happens before anyone gives notice.
- Read the signed agreement. Note the notice period and every obligation that has to be fulfilled before assets transfer.
- Verify domain registrar, DNS, and renewal access in your firm’s name.
- Request a written asset inventory: which static files, content, original media, licenses, and design materials are available under the agreement.
- Confirm admin ownership on GA4, Search Console, Google Ads, LSAs, social accounts, and Google Business Profile.
- Export a complete URL inventory plus all available historical reporting and conversion data while you still have access.
- Document phone numbers, forms, tracking scripts, intake routing, and paid landing pages.
- Decide who builds the replacement and who oversees the SEO side of the move. One contract for both is easier to hold accountable.
- Build a staging and cutover plan, test redirects and every lead path, then monitor after launch.
Questions firms ask about leaving Scorpion.
Will Scorpion give me my website?
Its FAQ says eligible departing clients receive static files, design assets, and content after fulfilling the contract. That is not the same as transferring the CMS. You get the materials; you don’t get a working site you can log into.
Can I move my Scorpion site to WordPress?
A new implementation is generally needed because the CMS doesn’t transfer. How much design and content work that takes depends on the reusable assets, the rights attached to them, and the scope you choose.
Will changing providers hurt our SEO?
It can cause temporary volatility, and it can cause avoidable damage if it’s poorly planned. There is no zero-loss guarantee from anyone. Preserving URLs, content, redirects, and tracking is what keeps “temporary” from becoming “permanent.”
Can I keep my current URL structure?
Often many URLs can be preserved. Anything that changes needs a redirect map, and the implementation has to be checked page by page, not assumed.
Do I have to notify Scorpion to request a preview?
A private evaluation can begin from lawfully accessible public material where authorized. Contractual obligations, rights, and the production handoff still require individual review. No one here will promise confidentiality beyond the actual data-handling process.
Does Brian rebuild Scorpion websites?
Not with my own hands. I scope the rebuild, bring in a developer I’ve vetted, and manage the build, the migration, and the SEO side of it under one engagement. You deal with me.
Better Call Spencer LLC is an independent consultancy. Scorpion is a trademark of its owner. Nothing on this page implies authorization, partnership, or endorsement by Scorpion. Statements about Scorpion’s policies are taken from its public FAQ as of October 28, 2026 and may change; your signed agreement controls.
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