Scott Eldredge

Scott J. Eldredge is a named shareholder of Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine in Englewood, Colorado. He has practiced with the firm since his admission to the Colorado bar in 1983, and his work focuses on complex medical malpractice cases, particularly birth injury claims. He tries cases in state and federal courts across the country.

Eldredge earned his law degree from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and has taught there as an adjunct professor since the late 1980s. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Colorado State University. He is a longtime member of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association’s executive committee and board, a senior fellow of the American Board of Trial Advocates and current president of the National Medical Malpractice Trial Lawyers Association.

In 2016 the Colorado Defense Lawyers Association gave him its Professionalism Award, an honor it presents each year to a plaintiff’s attorney. Best Lawyers named him Lawyer of the Year in Denver for professional malpractice law on the plaintiffs’ side in 2016, 2018 and 2024.