KRISTEN STALLINGS
Kristen Stallings is a senior vice president of business development with Rust Consulting. Stallings consults with clients across all practice areas, with a particular focus on labor and employment, ERISA, consumer, and antitrust, working to prepare proposals and develop strategies for notice and claims administration that serve the needs of the class, courts, and other stakeholders. She is based in Washington, D.C., with a focus on the company’s East Coast clients.
Notable recent settlements administered by Rust under Stallings’ leadership include:
- New York State Attorney General’s Office Uber and Lyft Settlements. The New York State Attorney General’s Office selected Rust to handle two related settlements involving Uber ($290 million and Lyft ($38 million) with about 200,000 drivers. The settlements provide funds for drivers who provided trips to passengers in New York and who had deductions for New York sales tax and Black Car Fund fees; and new benefits to all current drivers for sick leave, payment, training, and chat support. Immense public interest was driven by stories in the New York Times, NPR, CNN, Reuters, AP, Fox, CBS, and other major outlets. Rust’s client services, IT, and operations teams ensured that our call center representatives and
settlement websites were available to handle inbound questions.
- In re GE ERISA Litigation, No. 1:17-cv-12123 (D. Mass.). Plaintiffs alleged that GE’s wholly owned investment management company breached ERISA duties of loyalty and prudence to monitor and remove allegedly underperforming funds from GE’s retirement plan, and GE retirement funds therefore underperformed other comparable funds. A $61 million settlement was reached on behalf of approximately 220,000 class members, the largest settlement ever in this particular type of ERISA case.
Stallings brings an in-depth knowledge which is rooted in more than 15 years of diverse experience as an integral member of Kinsella Media (the nation’s leading notice provider and Rust’s former subsidiary, since absorbed into the Rust brand), which she joined in 2003. Beginning as a project manager, Stallings worked with clients to design and implement programs and write plain language materials in a wide variety of consumer and antitrust class actions. She eventually took over management of the client services team, leading teams of notice program managers and media planners on dozens of cases across the firm’s practice areas. She personally oversaw several of the company’s largest notice programs during this time, including Sullivan v. DB Investments, Cox v. Shell Oil, Peterson v. BASF, Wilson v. Airborne, Galanti v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber, and Shake Roof Cases.
Stallings has held diverse leadership roles including sales, client services, and operations (general operations, accounting and financial, human resources, and IT).
Thought Leadership
- Panelist, “The Absent Class Member: Notice and Case Management, Distribution of Damages and Legal Tech Solutions,” PerfectLaw Conference, May 2024
- Co-presenter, “Tips for a Successful Administration,” leading international labor and employment law firm, Oct. 2023
- Co-Author, “Locating Class Members,” Rust Kinsella Insights (March 2020)
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The Global Class Actions and Mass Torts Conference is a prestigious international event that focuses on the concept of collective redress, which refers to legal mechanisms that allow a large group of individuals who have suffered similar harm or injury to pursue their claims together as a single entity.
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- 24 - 25 April 2025
- Park Plaza Westminster Bridge
- 200 Westminster Bridge Rd, Lambeth London SE1 7UT United Kingdom