U. U. Lalit is an Indian lawyer who was elevated to the position of Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 13 August 2014. In 2014, elevated to the position of Judge of the Supreme Court of India. In August 2022, the Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana proposed the name of U. U. Lalit as the next CJI.Belonging to a family of lawyers, U. U. Lalit grew up watching his father, U. R. Lalit, and grandfather, Ranganath Lalit, practising law. U. R. Lalit was serving as an additional judge in the Delhi High Court when PM Indira Gandhi declared an emergency in India. At that time, U. R. Lalit boldly defied the political pressure and granted bail to under-trial prisoners packed in jails. It is assumed that U. R. Lalit was not approved by the Indira Gandhi regime as a judge of the HC. Meanwhile, U. U. Lalits grandfather, Ranganath Lalit, chaired two separate civic receptions when Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru visited Solapur, Maharashtra, the native town of the Lalit family.After enrolling as an advocate with the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa in June 1983, he started practising in the High Court of Bombay under the senior advocate M. A. Rane.He shifted his practice to Delhi in January 1986.Thereafter, he worked in the law firm of P. H. Parekh & Co.Lalit worked with the former Attorney General for India Soli Sorabjee from 1986 to 1992.He was designated as Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court of India in April 2004. At SC, he served as an Amicus Curiae, a person who assists a court despite being a third party to a case.He served as Special Public Prosecutor for CBI to conduct trials in the 2G scam under the orders of the SC. The alleged scam centred around various Indian politicians and private officials of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition government who were accused of issuing 122 2G licenses for benefitting specific telecom operators. A. Raja, a former telecom minister, was accused of allotting 2G licences to telecom operators at extremely low prices, which caused a loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the exchequer.During his tenure as a Supreme Court lawyer, he represented various high-profile clients like Salman Khan in the blackbuck poaching case, former Punjab CM Amarinder Singh in a corruption case, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu in the road rage case, and businessman Hasan Ali Khan in a money laundering case.However, defending Amit Shah in two high-profile criminal cases involving the fake encounter killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati in Gujarat in in 2005-06 caught the eye of the public. At that time, Shah was serving as the home minister of Gujarat.