representing Ahmed Mohamed sent letters on Monday demanding $10m (£6.7m) from the city of Irving, Texas, and $5m from the Irving Independent School District.
The attorneys, who also threatened to pursue legal action, said the teenager deserves the money and an apology because he was publicly mistreated.
Ahmed took a homemade clock to his school in September to show a teacher, but another teacher thought it could be a bomb.
The school contacted police, who handcuffed the teenager.
Ahmed, the son of Sudanese immigrants, was suspended from school for three days.
In the wake of his story going viral, Ahmed received multiple job offers and visited the headquarters of Google and Facebook.
He even chatted with President Barack Obama while attending an Astronomy Night event at the White House in October.
Ahmed and his family have since moved to Qatar, where the family accepted a foundation's offer to pay for Ahmed's high school and college tuition in Doha.
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