Formerly an advocate and Senior Counsel in Johannesburg, he joined the bench in 1990 as a judge of the Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa.
[2] He matriculated in 1955 at Parktown Boys' High School in Johannesburg and went on to the University of the Witwatersrand, where he completed a BComm in 1959 and an LLB cum laude in 1961.
[2] After serving his articles of clerkship in Johannesburg at the firm of Edward Nathan, Friedland, Mansell and Lewis, Zulman was admitted as an attorney in 1961.
[2] He practised there for the next 27 years, establishing chambers on Pritchard Street and developing a specialty in the rules of the Supreme Court of South Africa.
[1][5] He was also a former chairperson of the South African wing of the Yad Vashem Foundation, a Holocaust education organisation, and a member of the editorial board of Jewish Affairs magazine, to which he frequently contributed book reviews.