Gert-Juul Vonkeman finalised the post graduate degree LLB in 1993 and completed his Contract of Articles in the same year. Compulsary Military service was endured as a military legal adviser, whereafter he commenced practise in 1995 in Vryheid. After a stint as professional assistant and in partnership for 3 years, he started the firm known as GJ Vonkeman Attorneys on 25 May 1998. He has never looked back.