Complex sentence: He began filing lawsuits in small claims court in 2002, initially seeing the lawsuits as a hobby, but soon decided to make it his vocation and attended the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, from which he graduated in 2008.
Split into simpler sentences: He began filing lawsuits in small claims court in 2002, initially seeing the lawsuits as a hobby. Balsam soon decided to make it his vocation and attended the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, from which he graduated in 2008.