[9] Pottow also hosted a jazz program on WHRB-FM, and was a member of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals group and crew team and student conductor of the Harvard University Band.
[14] From 1993 to 1994, Pottow worked at Eos Partners, LP, a private equity hedge fund in New York, as chief financial officer.
[3][7][10] Pottow entered private practice, first as a litigation associate at Hill & Barlow in Boston from 1999 to 2002,[9] and then as of counsel at Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York from 2002 to 2003.
[16][17] In 2009, Pottow, Steven P. Croley, and Eric Posner were commissioned by the Troubled Asset Relief Program Congressional Oversight Panel to provide outside legal opinions on the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) and TARP.
[3][23][24] Pottow co-authors a leading bankruptcy textbook, The Law of Debtors and Creditors (8th edition, Wolters Kluwer 2021), along with Elizabeth Warren, Jay Lawrence Westbrook, and Katie Porter.
[25] His pro bono litigation includes the successful representation of the respondent in Executive Benefits Insurance Agency, Inc. v. Arkison before the Supreme Court of the United States.
[26] Pottow has provided commentary on legal issues in a variety of forums including New York Times,[27] USA Today,[28] and NPR.
[35] Pottow is married to Reshma Jagsi, a radiation oncologist and professor at the University of Michigan Medical School; they have two children.