Akron attorney who represented Tamir Rice's family requests $264,000 from boy's estate
CLEVELAND, Ohio — An Akron attorney who once represented Tamir Rice's family is seeking payment for his legal work and is asking a probate court judge to award him $264,225 from a $5.5 settlement the 12-year-old's estate reached with the city of Cleveland.
Walter Madison, who represented the Rice family from December 2014 through roughly mid-2015, wrote in a filing last week that he spent more than 220 hours on the phone and more than 660 hours conducting research, going to meetings and performing other duties when pursing a wrongful-death suit against the city.
In his filing, Madison writes that his work included representing Rice's family members, as well "advancement of criminal justice reform, justice, and social change."
He wrote that while representing the Rice family, contacting journalists was important to ensure that more attention was paid to police shootings involving unarmed black people, and "but for much time, preparation, research, and counseling, Tamir Rice's death undoubtedly would have been quieted and swept under the rug."
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