text: Two little-known lawyers announced Wednesday that they’ve been hired to investigate police treatment of Irving’s most famous teenager. 
   
   Ahmed Mohamed’s family has retained Thomas Bowers, the attorney told reporters Wednesday in the top-floor office of a North Dallas advertising firm. 
   
   “There’s a problem when you have a 14-year-old child arrested in school and basically humiliated in front of his classmates, his teachers, his friends and basically the whole world,” said Bowers. “He may be smiling on the outside, but he’s having some issues.” 
   
   Ahmed’s family said the now-famous boy has lost sleep since his teacher reported his homemade clock to police, who put him in handcuffs on a quickly dropped “hoax bomb” charge. The lawyers plan to have a medical professional examine the boy while they look into the city and school district’s actions. 
   
   Bowers previously represented a former stripper who sued Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. He’ll work on Ahmed’s case with Reggie London, whose Dallas firm typically deals with drunken-driving charges, traffic tickets and other criminal defense cases. 
   
   “I take the cases no one else will take,” Bowers said. 
   
   “I just want justice for him,” London added. 
   
   The lawyers said they contracted with Ahmed’s father Tuesday and didn’t know what, if any, legal action the family might take. In fact, they still knew little about the case — including where the boy was this week. (His family had planned a trip to New York to meet United Nations dignitaries.) 
   
   “I just got hired and I haven’t officially seen the responses or the mayor talking on TV,” Bowers said. “But I feel they made some inappropriate statements or remarks — trying to blame the victim, basically. 
   
   “With us being hired, I imagine they’ll probably cease comments like that.” 
   
   City officials did not respond when asked if they were consulting attorneys about possible legal action. The school district said it would have no statement about whether it is talking to an attorney. 
   
   Irving police announced Wednesday that they had notified Ahmed’s family Friday that the clock could be picked up any weekday at police headquarters. Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, has told The Dallas Morning News that he planned to retrieve the item but wasn’t sure when. ||||| After attorneys for the family of Ahmed Mohamed said Wednesday that they were considering legal options to retrieve the teen's homemade clock, police in Irving, Texas, responded it was available to be picked up during business hours — and had been since last week. 
   
   The 14-year-old was handcuffed at his North Texas high school and taken into custody after bringing the homemade digital clock to class. A teacher contacted authorities after fearing the clock looked like a bomb. Irving police seized the project as part of their investigation into whether Ahemd had tried to use it as a fake bomb to intimidate others. 
   
   "The follow-up investigation revealed the device apparently was a homemade experiment, and there is no evidence to support the perception he intended to create alarm," Irving police said in a statement on Sept. 16. "No charges will be filed and the case is considered closed." 
   
   Though police had closed their case, conversation was just beginning about whether the arrest was a sign of local bias against Muslims. The Mohamed family received an outpouring of support — including from President Obama and Mark Zuckerberg — as well as intense criticism. 
   
   On Wednesday, representatives for the family announced that the high school freshman and his siblings were no longer enrolled in the Irving school district — citing "religious persecution" — and would instead be homeschooled. The announcement also said that the teen's family had retained attorneys "to pursue Ahmed’s legal rights and regain his science project from the Irving Police Department." 
   
   The Irving Police Department then released its own statement in an effort to quell reports that the clock was being held hostage. 
   
   Police approved the clock to be returned to the family on Sept. 16, the day they announced the case was closed. 
   
   "A family representative was notified on Friday, Sept. 18, that the items were ready to be picked-up," police said. 
   
   To get his clock back, police said Ahmed's father or another representative could stop by the department any weekday between 6 a.m. and 4:45 p.m.
target: – Things aren't going as well as it might seem for "clock kid" Ahmed Mohamed, according to lawyers his family has hired to investigate the Texas teen's treatment by police. "There’s a problem when you have a 14-year-old child arrested in school and basically humiliated in front of his classmates, his teachers, his friends, and basically the whole world," attorney Thomas Bowers tells the Dallas Morning News. "He may be smiling on the outside, but he's having some issues." Ahmed's father says he won't be returning to the high school that suspended him after a teacher thought his homemade clock was a bomb. The family's lawyers initially said they were looking at ways to get the clock back from authorities in Irving, but police say they decided to return it to him last week and the family can pick it up anytime, BuzzFeed reports. The lawyers tell the Morning News that they aren't sure yet what legal action the family will take, but they feel that authorities, including Irving's mayor, have tried to "blame the victim," and now that they've been hired, "they'll probably cease comments like that." It's not clear when the family will get a chance to pick up the now-famous clock: Ahmed will meet with UN dignitaries in New York today and his father plans on a trip to Mecca, as well as a White House visit.