Alanna Rutherford. Alanna Rutherford—who at one point was both the youngest and the sole African-American equity partner at Boies Schiller Flexner—has jumped to the legal department at Visa Inc., joining the company on June 25 as vice president of global litigation. The National Law Journal New York Law Journal I'm a unicorn, in that I've been at the same place since post-clerkship," she said. "I felt a little bit complacent. I felt I wasn't being challenged any more." I'll always think of myself as a litigator," Rutherford said. "The thing I loved the most about litigation was solving the problem. The implementation can be rote after a while. As in-house [counsel], I'll be working on the first part a lot, which is the part I really love." work on behalf of Harvey Weinstein blood testing startup Theranos Inc. "Minority women, and minorities generally, get overlooked in all the work that they do," she said. Quyen Ta Travis LeBlanc in both cities These are all incredible lawyers doing incredible things," she said. "They deserve more recognition than they get."