Professor Pollman was on the founding faculty of the law school. She teaches in the areas of Lawyering Process, Persuasion, Negotiation and Leadership and Law. She is a past president of the Association of Legal Writing Directors and the Managing Editor of the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute. Her scholarship focuses on legal writing, pedagogy and rhetoric. She is an author of Examples and Explanations: Legal Writing.

Professor Pollman graduated from the University of Arizona College of Law where she was an Articles Editor of the Arizona Law Review and an Ares Fellow. She also directed legal writing programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Stetson University College of Law.