{
  "slug": "escrow-release-instructions",
  "title": "The client trust account is a target with a compliance obligation attached",
  "summary": "Trust account and escrow losses are authorization failures at the release instruction. Why callbacks fail at closing, and what a signed disbursement looks like.",
  "lede": "Every other business that loses money to a forged payment instruction has a bad quarter. A law firm that loses client money from trust has a bad quarter, a bar complaint, and a duty to make the client whole. The instruction that moves the money arrives by email, and almost nobody is checking the thing that actually matters.",
  "date": "2026-09-28",
  "reading_time": "17 min read",
  "category": "Regulated",
  "tags": ["trust account fraud", "IOLTA", "escrow release", "wire fraud", "law firm security", "business email compromise"],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Escrow%20Release%20Instructions/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/escrow-release-instructions.html",
  "wordcount": 4344,
  "related": ["callback-verification-fails", "real-estate-wire-fraud", "payee-add-is-the-transaction"],
  "schema": "Article"
}