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Brown's shooting by officer Darren Wilson last August sparked
a wave of angry demonstrations and unrest over police violence,
particularly against minorities.
The lawsuit will be filed on Thursday morning, lawyers Benjamin
Crump and Daryl Parks said in a brief statement.
"Legal counsel will speak with members of the media immediately
following" the filing, the lawyers said, but gave no further
details, including the amount of damages to be sought.
The filing has been expected since the family said last month it
would file the civil case.
That announcement came a day after the U.S. Justice Department
cleared Wilson of any civil rights violations in the shooting of
Brown last August. But the department's report found racial bias
and a pattern of illegal actions against African-Americans by
the Ferguson Police Department.
Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson resigned last month, within
days of the report's release.
A grand jury in Missouri decided in November not to bring
criminal charges against Wilson, who has since left the police
department.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by
Clarence Fernandez)
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