I filed Christopher Prosser v. Accord Healthcare Institute, LLC, Jefferson County Circuit Court Case No. 25JE-CC01005, myself. No lawyer at the beginning. No cameras. A residential number on the Missouri and national Do Not Call lists, a stack of screenshots, and a statute most companies ignore until it is too late.
The messages were not subtle. They arrived as “Accord Health Instit,” pushing “recurring autodialed SMS/MMS marketing msgs,” with a link to 85100-info.com. I asked the company name and location. I said I had never given express written consent. I said I was on the MDNC and DNC and to cease and desist. The bot answered the same way every time: “Incorrect response. Reply YES…” That is not a conversation. That is a machine that does not care that Missouri law exists.
Missouri’s Telemarketing No-Call List Act is not a suggestion. A residential subscriber on the list is not a lead. Eight solicitations, no consent, no established business relationship, no required disclosures, and a vanity number that hid the real caller. That is the case I walked into court with.
Then Juan Jose Lopez made it a different case.
What Lopez did
Accord Healthcare Institute, LLC is an Arizona limited liability company. An LLC is an artificial entity. In Missouri it does not get to “appear pro se.” It appears through a lawyer licensed in this state, or it does not appear at all.
Lopez is the registered agent and authorized representative. He is not a Missouri lawyer. He drafted, signed, and filed a motion to dismiss, a memorandum of law with case citations, an affidavit packed with legal conclusions, a stay of discovery, a “correction of an error,” an opposition to strike, and even a summary-judgment paper — all on behalf of the LLC.
Worse, the first wave of papers used the language of counsel. He later filed a “Motion Correction of an Error” admitting he is not an attorney and that “by and through undersigned counsel” was a mistake. You do not get to practice law by accident and then erase it with an apology.
That pattern is not unique to this file. It is the same move Daniel Kellas used — a non-lawyer treating a Missouri courtroom like a customer-service desk. Missouri appellate courts have already had to clean that up in Prosser v. Kellas. The rule does not change because the defendant is in Phoenix.
What the court did
Judge Travis D. Partney did not shrug.
On January 5, 2026, the court entered orders that:
- Struck the unauthorized LLC filings as nullities
- Found Lopez engaged in the unauthorized practice of law
- Found the “undersigned counsel” language was impersonation of an attorney and fraud on the court
- Entered default on the unauthorized practice
- Imposed monetary sanctions, costs, and fees totaling $35,000.00, jointly and severally, against Accord Healthcare Institute, LLC and Juan Jose Lopez
That is not a blog post. That is a circuit court order.
Counsel later appeared for the company. On March 5, 2026, the court set aside the interlocutory default on the underlying claim and set a motion to dismiss for hearing. It did not wipe out the January 5 sanctions orders. Those orders stayed on the file.
The strategy people ask about
Here is the part consumers never see explained.
A No-Call case against an out-of-state school that denies the number, denies Missouri contacts, and now has real lawyers is a fight. It can be won. It can also become years of jurisdiction briefing, discovery wars, and collection theater for statutory damages that a defendant will spend more money resisting than paying.
A $35,000 sanctions order for unauthorized practice of law, already written, already joint and several against the company and the man who signed the papers, is a different asset.
So on March 13, 2026, I did what the playbook teaches when the board changes: I filed a notice of voluntary dismissal of the underlying No-Call action without prejudice, and I moved for entry of a final judgment on the sanctions. The point was not to quit. The point was to stop litigating the smaller fight so the larger, cleaner order could stand on its own and be collected.
Dismissing the petition does not mean the texts were fine. It means I refused to let a defendant bury a sanctions award inside an endless merits war. Most people cling to the original claim out of pride. Strategy is colder than pride. The sanctions file was worth more than dragging the DNC counts through another year of motions.
That file is still being prosecuted as a final, collectible judgment. Status remains on the Jefferson County docket. I later associated counsel for the writ practice that followed. The through-line did not change: I built the case, I stood on the UPL, and I chose the judgment that collects.
What this proves
First, the No-Call statute still works when you keep the texts, the timestamps, the lack of consent, and the seller’s own name on the message.
Second, a company does not get a free first move by sending a manager to file lawyer papers. Missouri has said for decades that an LLC in court without a licensed attorney is not “self-represented.” It is practicing law without a license. Those filings are nothing. Sometimes they cost $35,000.
Third, the playbook is not only “file and hope they default.” It is knowing when the side fight became the main case. First Choice Parts defaulted on an MMPA energy-saver fraud and I am garnishing. Accord Healthcare answered with UPL, and I dismissed the underlying claim to lock the sanctions. Different facts. Same discipline.
I still do not post confidential settlements. I post public dockets. 25JE-CC01005 is public. The texts are in the file. The January 5 orders are in the file. The dismissal-and-finalize strategy is in the file.
If a company is blowing up your phone, save the thread. If a non-lawyer answers your lawsuit for an LLC, do not argue the merits with a nullity. Strike it. Sanction it. Then decide which judgment is actually worth collecting.
That is consumer justice without the costume.
Christopher Prosser is a 42-year complex litigation paralegal, Founder & CEO of Attorney’s Acquisitions, LLC and TeleJustice Academy, LLC, and author of the RoboCall Justice and Consumer Justice playbook series.
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