| Laurence Howard Ledredge | |
| Birth Date: | 18 March 1902 |
| Birth Place: | Cold Spring, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Nationality: | American |
| Education: | Lafayette College (BS) University of Pennsylvania (LLB) |
| Children: | 3 |
| Parents: | Irvin H. Eldredge Mary Louise Benton |
Laurence Howard Eldredge (March 18, 1902 – July 17, 1982) was an American lawyer, educator and author. His specialty was the law of torts.
Eldredge was born in Cold Spring, Cape May County, New Jersey on March 18, 1902 to Irvin H. and Mary Louise (Benton) Eldridge. He received a Bachelor of Science from Lafayette College in 1924 and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Pennsylvania in 1927. In 1970, he completed a Doctor of Letters.
Eldredge was a reporter for the Public Ledger in Philadelphia from 1924-25 and then a writer of syndicated news articles. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1927 and worked as an associated with Montgomery and McCracken until 1938. He was a member of the firm Norris, Lex, Hart & Eldredge from 1944 to 1956.
Eldredge was a professor of law at Temple University from 1928-33 and an adjunct professor from 1947-52. He was Special Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 1948 to 1949.
During the 1970s Eldridge taught torts at Hastings College of Law in San Francisco as a member of that school's 65 Club consisting of professors who were past retirement age and unable to teach elsewhere.
Eldredge married Helen Biddle Gans on September 30, 1926 and they had three daughters.