Antonio C. Martinez II

Antonio C. Martinez II Attorney at Law, Business & Public Policy Consultant

Grateful to my clients and colleagues
10/17/2024

Grateful to my clients and colleagues

Lawyering inBarcelona, Spain
10/02/2024

Lawyering in
Barcelona, Spain

08/19/2023

Grateful for this appointment.
I look forward to supporting the mission of the Richardson Center and Gov Richardson. The work is not full time but special projects.

The Richardson Center for Global Engagement announces that Attorney Antonio C. Martinez II of New York, has been named a Special Assistant and Advisor on Latin America and the Western Hemisphere to Former US Ambassador to the UN, Congressman, Energy Secretary, and New Mexico Governor, Bill Richardso...

08/27/2022

Another incredible day of presentations on tap at the Symposium for Metabolic Health - San Diego!

Presentations by: Antonio C. Martinez II, Nina Teicholz, Robert Cywes, Ede Fox, Tony Hampton, & Dr. Gurpreet Padda. Two highly-anticipated panel discussions are also on the schedule.



It's not too late to register for the livestream! Recordings of all presentations & panel discussions are included: https://www.lowcarbusa.org/smhp-symposiums/san-diego-2022/

Who is joining me in San Diego CA Aug 25-28?
08/03/2022

Who is joining me in San Diego CA Aug 25-28?

The 7th annual Symposium for Metabolic Health - San Diego will be held August 25-28, 2022.

Which of our expert speakers are you most looking forward to seeing/hearing?

Learn from world-renowned experts regarding:
• The overwhelming evidence supporting carbohydrate reduction as a therapeutic intervention.
• The use of Carbohydrate Reduction in addressing, and even reversing, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, fatty liver, PCOS, CVD, epilepsy, TBI, Alzheimer's, neurological pathologies, mental health conditions and much more!
• Stabilizing blood sugar & reducing the risk of complications in type 1 diabetes.
• Effective strategies for treating obesity& achieving sustainable weight loss.
• The impact of insulin resistance & inflammation on chronic illness.
Improvement of health & education worldwide - addressing nutritional policies & clinical guidelines and establishing Standard of Care with respect to therapeutic carbohydrate reduction.
• Emerging and historical research, clinical outcomes, benefits of ketogenic and metabolic therapies.
• Clinicians significant successes with patients, many with a powerful personal story of their own journey to sustained weight loss and improved metabolic health.

Learn more and register here:
https://www.lowcarbusa.org/smhp-symposiums/san-diego-2022/

Gary Taubes Robert Cywes M.D. PhD Dave Feldman Michelle Hurn RD LD Mark Cucuzzella Tony Hampton, MD, MBA, CPE Dr. Eric Westman Antonio C. Martinez II Ede Fox Peter Ballerstedt Ben Bocchicchio Jodi Nishida Joan Ifland Andreas Eenfeldt Nina Teicholz

Who’s coming to San Diego in August?  Honored to be speaking again at this important conference. If you’re interested or...
03/31/2022

Who’s coming to San Diego in August? Honored to be speaking again at this important conference. If you’re interested or have a business in Low Carb, Keto, or have Diabetes or weight issues, this conference is for you…

Who is going to Low Carb USA Boca Raton FL Conference next month?
12/30/2021

Who is going to Low Carb USA Boca Raton FL Conference next month?

The 2022 Low Carb Boca Conference, to be held January 14-16, starts in just over 2 weeks!

Get your virtual tickets now, or snag a last minute in person ticket!

The expert presentation lineup includes many of the most sought-after speakers in the the areas of metabolic health, highlighting the benefits of therapeutic carbohydrate restriction with the scientific data and clinical outcomes, cardiovascular health, addiction, exercise, and more.

Every one of the 15+ presentations will be delivered live and in-person from sunny Boca!

All presentations will be recorded and are available to in-person and virtual attendees for unlimited viewing live during, and after, the event. So no worries about whether your schedule will allow, watch all that you can live, and watch any you missed or want to review indefinitely!

CME/CMHE credits are also available!

You can see the full list of speakers below and you can view every speaker's bio when you visit the event page. https://www.lowcarbusa.org/low-carb-events/boca-2022/

The speaker schedule lists the date and time of each presentation,
Here is a list of topics each presenter will be discussing.

- Robert Cywes M.D. PhD, topic to be announced
- Tro Kalayjian, DO - topic to be announced
- Ben Bocchicchio, PhD, MHP - Insulin Resistance: The Critical Role of the Muscle System and Exercise
- L Amber O'Hearn - Ketogenic Diets, Sleep, and Satiety
- Ken D Berry, MD - How to Predict Type 2 Diabetes 10 years Before it Happens
- David Diamond, PhD - Does High Cholesterol on a Low Carbohydrate Diet Increase One’s Risk for Cardiovascular Disease?
Dr. Scholl - The Importance of Hyperinsulinemia and Diet in a Changing Landscape of Atherosclerosis
- Siobhan Huggins - Why Keto For Lipedema? Possible Mechanisms and Insights
- Philip Ovadia, MD Ovadia Heart Health- Managing Risk of Heart Disease: Metabolic Health Reigns Supreme
- Michelle Hurn RD LD - Standard Anorexia Dogma (SAD) Isn’t Working. Let’s Think Differently
- Arthur Agatston, MD - Illustrative Case Studies in Cardiac and Metabolic Disease
- Joan Ifland, PhD, MBA - Abstinent Food Plans in the Treatment of Diet-Related Diseases
- Brian Lenzkes MD - When Big Brother is Actually a Good Thing!
- Peter Delannoy, PhD - A Gout Hypothesis And A Plan For Remission
- Vyvyane Loh, MD - on Diversity and Ethnic Differences in HealthCare

There will also be breakout talks scheduled for viewing at the event, we'll try to get good recordings to be able to upload for viewing for the livestream folks!

Including - Sunday 12:15 pm: Friendly Fire- A Practical Workshop on Creating a Low Carb Practice in Your Institution (Dr. Mark Cucuzzella)

Those attending in person will also have to opportunity to get introduced to innovative support resources at the exhibition tables!

- Get your blood ketones, and glucose tested all weekend with Keto-Mojo!
- Get a CIMT Carotid Ultrasound from Vasolabs, Inc..

Learn about the new resources created by:
- Precision Health Reports, and
- Our all low carb, and SMaRT exercise mentoring program in partnership with the Restore health digital app based program for referring your patients to.
- Dr Ben Bocchicchio will be doing SMaRTraining demonstrations, learn from the master!

Taste and enjoy:
- RxSugar allulose product line
- Spike-FREE. SFuels - Ultra low-carb, high-fat fuels, high on energy low/no GI trouble
- Simply Snackin, meat snacks
- RSVP Skinnies 0 sugar mixers/flavors
- Wine Club wines. Low Carb wines with or without a membership :)

Plus an all low carb dinner is included. Beautifully crafted entrees and sides with no grains, fillers or sugars, and will include all natural fats! Come learn, network, collaborate, make new friends, share your journey!

Join online, and communicate through our community group and online chat/Q&A in the livestream

Hope you can join us either way, to help to continue to raise awareness and bring changes to worldwide health, medical standards of care, and nutritional guidelines for the better!

Pam Devine Tia Birchler Reid Teresa Mealy Total Health and Wellness, LLC Janae Nuspl Cywes KETO Five-O Mona Nyandoro Cummings BantingUSA (Keto Mona) Duke Mihajlovic Mary Jane Rehberger Mihajlovic Don Marsden Sucha Kumar Live Blissed. Dorian Greenow Gemma Kochis Green Life Wellness 365 Sugar Me Intolerant and Carb Me Sick "Low Carb Sensibility" Group The SMHP Nutrition Network Antonio C. Martinez II

02/09/2021
07/15/2019

REMARKS OF ANTONIO C. MARTINEZ II. ESQ ON RECEIVING THE BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL 2017 ALUMNI PUBLIC SERVICE EXCELLENCE AWARD, LATIN AMERICAN LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION

I would like to thank all of you and my family gathered here for this moment. I never expected this honor but I am truly moved by this recognition. I also want to acknowledge our keynote speaker, the Acting Brooklyn District Attorney, Eric Gonzalez, who is an inspiration and a model on how you can rise up the ranks through a career in public service. I truly hope the people of Kings County will see to elect him to the full term as I know he will do a great job protecting our community here in Brooklyn. I would like to acknowledge my sister Julie who is in private practice now, once worked at and rose to become the Chief of the Domestic Violence Bureau at the Brooklyn DA’s office during the service of District Attorneys Elizabeth Holtzman and Charles Hynes. My family believes in and is committed to public service through the legal profession.

During these 20 years I have been practicing law and 26 years as a government relations professional, my journey has been blessed with many opportunities and happy successes. It is a journey that has allowed me to travel and visit 45 of the 50 states and 26 countries and meet and interact with some amazing politicians, business and labor leaders, health professionals and patients.

But more importantly, it has allowed me to be able to assist in making regular people’s lives better. People ask me what kind of lawyer are you? I tell them I am a negotiator and an advocate. I work to resolve conflict, to be a bridge-builder, to make life better for my clients, to be a catalyst in the art of making their deals, to be an ambassador for health, peace, and prosperity in all of its manifestations in our society and in the halls of government or in the courtroom.

I am a lawyer who wants to make the system work. Because beyond your duty to ethically and zealously represent your clients, it is your job as a lawyer to make government work for all the people. I do not accept the proposition that government in of itself is the problem. It is the imperfect exercise and administration of government that is always the challenge. And it is only when we intervene through this profession do our efforts determine whether the government itself responds justly and equitably or remains broken. I want government to work for all the people.

As a lawyer sometimes who you are and what you do for your client will be the only thing remaining that keeps them from losing their sanity or everything they own, or their freedom in a criminal matter, or whatever resources or assets they may have at stake in a legal dispute. It is truly an honorable profession if you hold it and yourself with humility – as you will be reminded in the course of serving clients - but for the grace of God…and my lawyer could go I. You will know your two common and constant adversaries in most cases are either ignorance or arrogance or both combined. They are powerful adversaries. You must be patient, perseverant, strategic and skillful in confronting and overcoming these two villains. They are often the true obstacles to justice or the resolution of a conflict. When you do this work, you often will not know the full measure of your efforts until long after you have served your client. But your efforts will be reflected back into society when your service reunited or saved a family, helped a patient get access to an experimental drug that prolonged or saved their life; helped a company grow from being in one state to two and then going national; negotiating deals that create jobs and prosperity here and abroad; creating a pathway to bringing people and ideas together and turning them into goods and services in the economy; making sure an innocent man is freed or a guilty one pay for his crimes.

The cases and clients you take on will be an affirmation of the rule of law to which you will give your oath after you pass the bar and get sworn in. You do not have to be perfect. No one is perfect. You will make mistakes or life itself will serve you up challenges you need in order to grow as a human being and as a professional and be more thoughtful, compassionate, and tolerant. These challenges for me personally showed up as divorce, illness, and being impacted in the mortgage crisis of 2008. Empathy will be the greatest ally in your service. Your clients may be impressed by how much you know but they will be more impressed by how much you care for them, their cause, and that you can deliver for them.

So what’s next for me as I return for another tour of service in Washington DC? I am blessed and grateful that my career takes me back and forth from New York to Washington DC. often and to many other cities in the U.S and abroad. Besides working on international relations, many of you do not know I had a heart attack three years ago and had been suffering from Type 2 Diabetes. How many here have or have a relative with Type 2 Diabetes or heart disease? I discovered a regimen, therapy, and diet, that got me off five medications, put my heart disease in reverse, and T2 Diabetes into remission, all through a Hi Fat Low Carbohydrate Diet and Intermittent Fasting. Not to mention getting off five prescriptions and saving more than $18,000.00 in prescription drug costs that I have saved my health insurance company from having to cover so far. Where is that taking me today? Back to Washington DC where the Nutrition Guidelines that are making many of us fat sick and diabetic are going to be changed through the efforts of health professionals, scientists, engineers, patients, and lawyers…

Finally, I want to share with you a true story and another you never know who your client is and will become thanks to your efforts. Now, this particular lawyer was an immigrant and came from the Dominican Republic as a boy. He came to the U.S. with his mother through Ellis Island and grew up in New York City. He served his new country in World War 2 and after the war in the ’50s, he decided to become a lawyer. Upon graduation from Brooklyn Law School, by the way, he was admitted to the bar on December 3, 1956. To my knowledge, he was the first Dominican American member of the New York Bar, more than 60 years ago. Well, that lawyer went on to become a superb immigration lawyer in New York. During his career helping thousands of immigrants get through the process, he had a client who was a boy at the time named Adriano. Now Adriano and his family were in serious immigration difficulties, undocumented, and uncertain of their future. They went to this lawyer who not only found a way out for Adriano and his family but got them their green cards. Adriano then went on to complete his education here, become a U.S. Citizen, and was inspired to serve the public, to which he has reached historic heights today. Adriano went on to get to elected to public office, becoming an Assemblyman, then State Senator, and last November being elected the first Dominican American Member of Congress, the Honorable Adriano Espaillat of New York’s 13th Congressional District. And his lawyer, the first Dominican American member of the New York Bar was my father, Antonio C. Martinez, Brooklyn Law School Class of 1956! And to my late father and Giancarlo’s grandfather, I dedicate this award. Goodnight, thank you and God Bless You all.

DISCURSO DE ANTONIO C. MARTINEZ II. ESQ A RECIBIR EL PREMIO DE EXCELENCIA DEL SERVICIO PÚBLICO DE LOS GRADUADOS DE LA FACULTAD DE DERECHO DE BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL 2017 ASOCIACION DE ESTUDIANTE LATINOS DE DERECHO LALSA
Me gustaría agradecer a todos ustedes ya mi familia reunidos aquí por este momento. Nunca esperé este honor, pero estoy verdaderamente conmovido por este reconocimiento. También quiero agradecer a nuestro orador principal, el Fiscal Interino del Distrito de Brooklyn, Eric Gonzalez, quien es una inspiración y un modelo sobre cómo puedes subir las filas a través de una carrera en el servicio público. Realmente espero que la gente del condado de Kings vea para elegirlo al término completo ya que sé que hará un gran trabajo protegiendo a nuestra comunidad aquí en Brooklyn. Quisiera reconocer a mi hermana Julie, quien ahora está en ejercicio privado, una vez que trabajó y se levantó para convertirse en la Jefa de la Oficina de Violencia Doméstica en la oficina de Brooklyn DA durante el servicio de Elizabeth Holtzman y Charles Hynes. Mi familia cree y está comprometida con el servicio público a través de la profesión legal.

Durante estos 20 años he estado ejerciendo derecho y 26 años como profesional de relaciones gubernamentales, mi jornada ha sido bendecida con muchas oportunidades y éxitos felices. Es una jornada que me ha permitido viajar y visitar 45 de los 50 estados y 26 países y conocer e interactuar con algunos políticos distinguidos, líderes empresariales y laborales, profesionales de la salud y pacientes.

Pero lo que es más importante, es que me ha permitido ser capaz de ayudar a mejorar la vida de las personas comunes. La gente me pregunta qué tipo de abogado es usted? Les digo que soy un negociador y un defensor. Trabajo para resolver conflictos, ser constructor de puentes, hacer la vida mejor para mis clientes, ser un catalizador en el arte de hacer sus negocios, ser un embajador de la salud, la paz y la prosperidad en todas sus manifestaciones en nuestro sociedad y en los pasillos del gobierno o en la sala del tribunal.

Soy un abogado que quiere hacer que el sistema funcione. Porque más allá de su deber de representar ética y entusiastamente a sus clientes, es su trabajo como abogado hacer que el gobierno trabaja para todas las personas. No acepto la proposición de que el gobierno en sí mismo es el problema. Es el ejercicio imperfecto y la administración del gobierno que siempre es el desafío. Y sólo cuando intervenimos a través de esta profesión nuestros esfuerzos determinan si el gobierno responda justa y equitativamente o si sigue estando roto. Quiero que el gobierno trabaje para todas las personas.

Como abogado, a veces lo que eres y lo que haces por tu cliente será lo único que les impide perder su cordura o todo lo que poseen, o su libertad en asunto penal, o cualesquiera recursos o activos que puedan tener en juego en una disputa legal. Es verdaderamente una profesión honorable si se sostiene usted y usted mismo con humildad - como se recordará en el transcurso de servir a los clientes -, pero por la gracia de Dios ... y mi abogado podría ir yo. Usted conocerá a sus dos adversarios comunes y constantes en la mayoría de los casos son ignorancia o arrogancia o ambos combinados. Son poderosos adversarios. Usted debe ser paciente, perseverante, estratégico y hábil en confrontar y superar a estos dos malos. A menudo son los verdaderos obstáculos para la justicia o la resolución de un conflicto. Al hacer su trabajo, a menudo no sabrá la medida completa de sus esfuerzos hasta mucho después de haber servido a su cliente. Pero sus esfuerzos se reflejarán en la sociedad cuando su servicio reunió o salvó a una familia, ayudó a un paciente a tener acceso a una droga experimental que prolongó o salvó su vida; Ayudó a una empresa a crecer de estar en un estado a dos y luego ir nacional; Negociar acuerdos que generen empleo y prosperidad aquí y en el extranjero; Creando un camino para reunir personas e ideas y convertirlas en bienes y servicios en la economía; Asegurándose de que un hombre inocente sea liberado o un culpable pague por sus crímenes.

Los casos y los clientes que usted toma serán una afirmación del estado de la ley a la cual usted dará su juramento después de que usted pase el examen de licencia y sea juramentado. Usted no tiene que ser perfecto. Nadie es perfecto. Cometerás errores o la vida misma te servirá los desafíos que necesitas para crecer como ser humano y como profesional y ser más pensativo, compasivo y tolerante. Estos desafíos para mí personalmente se presentaron como divorcio, enfermedad y ser afectado por la crisis hipotecaria de 2008. La empatía será su mejor aliado en su servicio. Sus clientes pueden quedar impresionados por lo mucho que saben, pero estarán más impresionados por lo mucho que les importa, su causa y que puede entregar para ellos.

Entonces, ¿qué es lo próximo para mí como regreso para otra turno de servicio en Washington DC? Estoy bendecido y agradecido de que mi carrera me lleve de Nueva York a Washington DC frecuentemente y a muchas otras ciudades en los Estados Unidos y en el extranjero. Además de trabajar en relaciones internacionales, muchos de ustedes no saben que tuve un ataque al corazón hace tres años y que había estado sufriendo de Diabetes Tipo 2. ¿Cuántos aquí tienen o tienen un pariente con Diabetes Tipo 2 o enfermedad cardíaca? Descubrí un régimen, una terapia y una dieta que me quitaron cinco medicamentos, pusieron mi enfermedad cardíaca en reversa y Diabetes Tipo 2 en remisión, todo a través de una Dieta baja en carbohidratos y alta en grasa y ayuno intermitente. Me libere de cinco recetas y ahorrand más de $ 18,000.00 en los costos de medicamentos recetados que he salvado mi compañía de seguros de salud de tener que cubrir hasta ahora. ¿Dónde me lleva hoy? Volver a Washington DC, donde las directrices de nutrición que están haciendo muchos de nosotros enfermos, obesos, y diabéticos van a ser cambiados a través de los esfuerzos de los profesionales de la salud, científicos, ingenieros, pacientes y abogados ...

Para concluir, quisiera compartir con ustedes una historia real y otra de que nunca se sabe quién es su cliente y se convertirá en gracias a sus esfuerzos. Ahora este abogado en particular era un inmigrante y vino de la República Dominicana cuando era niño. Vino a Estados Unidos con su madre a través de Ellis Island y creció en la ciudad de Nueva York. Sirvió a su nuevo país en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y después de la guerra en los años 50, decidió convertirse en abogado. Al graduarse de la Facultad de Derecho de Brooklyn por el camino, fue admitido como abogado en el estado de Nueva York el 3 de diciembre de 1956. A mi conocimiento, él fue el primer Dominicano Americano del New York Bar, hace más de 60 años. Bueno, ese abogado se convirtió en un abogado de inmigración magnifico en Nueva York. Durante su carrera ayudando a miles de inmigrantes a pasar por el proceso, tuvo un cliente que era un niño en ese momento llamado Adriano. Ahora Adriano y su familia estaban en serias dificultades de inmigración, indocumentados e inseguros de su futuro. Fueron a este abogado que no sólo encontró una salida para Adriano y su familia, sino que les consiguió sus tarjetas verdes. Adriano luego continuó su educación aquí, se convirtió en un ciudadano estadounidense, y se inspiró para servir al público, al que ha alcanzado alturas históricas hoy. Adriano pasó a ser elegido para un cargo público, convirtiéndose en asambleísta, entonces senador estatal, y en noviembre pasado fue elegido el primer miembro del Congreso Dominicano-Americano, el Honorable Adriano Espaillat del Distrito 13 Congresional de Nueva York. Y su abogado, el primer Dominicano Americano miembro del New York Bar era mi padre, Antonio C. Martínez, graduado de la Facultad de Derecho de Brooklyn de 1956. Y a mi difunto padre y abuelo de Giancarlo, dedico este premio. Buenas noches, gracias y que Dios los bendiga a todos.

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