He became a teacher, but left the job when he entered the University of Texas at Austin to study for a law degree.
Immediately after his admittance to the Texas Bar in 1895, Pollard was elected Panola County Attorney, a position he held until 1898.
[1] In 1909, Pollard became counsel for St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway in Kingsville, Texas, where the railroad had recently run a line through the King Ranch.
Upon taking office, Pollard defended the Texas white primary law in the United States Supreme Court case of Nixon v. Herndon.
Although Pollard was reelected to his post, he did not complete his second term, choosing instead to resign in September 1929 so that he could serve the Railway General Managers' Association of Texas as its counsel.