Dasha Ternavska
Senior Product Liability & Mass Torts Attorney
Overview
Dasha Ternavska is an analytics-armed and tech-forward senior litigator. She invents and implements tailored solutions to drive results and reduce risk, disruption, and waste. With a global investigations and national complex litigation practice, Dasha has represented multinationals in matters across 20 U.S. states and more than 15 countries, including on issues involving the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), state attorneys general, and other agencies.
Her cases involve fraud, forgeries, commercial bribery, kickbacks, corruption, trade secret theft and unauthorized access, contract disputes, antitrust allegations, and commercial issues. With technical command, Dasha works closely with forensic accountants, finance and accounting personnel, and technical experts.
She also serves as clients’ preferred e-discovery counsel in multijurisdictional global matters with custodial and enterprise data, and with cross-border transfer, privacy, and state secrets considerations. She responsibly tailors data impacts and risk, aggressively improves case efficiencies and outcomes, and thoughtfully reduces vendor spend and client business disruption. To do so, Dasha regularly pilots and deploys leading vendor, firm, and client AI, Gen AI, and TAR / CAL tools. She devises and reports on defensible, auditable, and efficient discovery processes with both industry-standard and unique data sources — including extensive financial data, bespoke software systems, and complex messaging and recording platforms.
Dasha’s practice is informed by her cross-border and multicultural experiences. A native of Ukraine, Dasha has lived and worked internationally. She has dealt with international commercial litigation and child protection issues at the Hague Conference on Private International Law in The Netherlands, international stakeholder outreach at DuPont Pioneer, and multilingual cross-border work at the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry in France.
For two years prior to joining Faegre Drinker, Dasha also served as a judicial clerk to U.S. District Judge Stephanie M. Rose. Her interest in federal practice originated during her two-year internship with the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Dasha’s experience with jury and bench trials extends beyond Faegre Drinker to these and other roles with the federal government.
Credentials
Bar Admissions
Iowa
California
Court Admissions
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
Iowa Supreme Court
Clerkships
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Hon. Stephanie Rose, 2013-2015
Languages
Russian
Ukrainian
French
Education
University of Iowa College of Law
J.D. with distinction, Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems (managing editor) (2013)
Central College
B.A. in International Studies and French, cum laude (2008)
Insights & Events
Insights
Other Perspectives
- A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Admissibility of “Other Fires” Evidence in Arson Cases
Co-author with C.J. Williams, 48 Conn. L. Rev. 685, 2016 - You’re a Lawyer, You Should Know Better: Anecdotal Tales of Workplace Inappropriateness
Co-presenter, Iowa State Bar Association’s Annual Meeting, 2015 - An Update on the Proper Use of Electronic Bond Reports
Presenter, U.S. Attorney’s Office CLE Presentation, 2013
Firm Blog Contributions
- Faegre Drinker on Products – a blog addressing all things product liability that covers legal issues and developments of interest to product manufacturers and their employers
Leadership & Community
Professional Associations
- Polk County Women Attorneys — Board Member, 2014-16
- Iowa State Bar Association — Bench-Bar Conference Committee, 2016; Young Lawyers Division, Diversity Committee, 2014-15; Young Lawyers Fast Action Team, 2015
- Polk County Bar Association — Membership Committee, 2014-15
- C. Edwin Moore American Inn of Court
Honors
- Best Lawyers® — "Ones to Watch," Commercial Litigation, 2021-25
- Faegre Baker Daniels — Pro Bono Honor Roll, 2016