This article takes on courts in Egypt as a public space and investigates their gendered politics and affects. Egyptian courts are daily packed with different vulnerable bodies awaiting critical decisions. Gender battles are particularly salient in courts, whether these have to do with issues of divorce, custody, debt, and inheritance, or cases around rape, sex work and ‘morality’ on social media. But in all these cases, one group takes on daily battles to do their work: women lawyers. Women lawyers are consumed, infantilized, and undermined daily by male lawyers and judges. The male gaze of judges dismisses female bodies as unprofessional, deviant, and out-of-place, and often challenges women lawyers and litigants with patriarchal performances, including shouting and silencing. The precarity of women’s bodies is paralleled by the precarity of the law itself, and its disorderly applications by largely male, conservative, and elite judges. Court spaces are not merely sites of oppression and sexual domination; they are also a stage for performing subversions and resistance. This article shows how simple subversive actions of female lawyers, like smoking, shouting, or dressing in ways considered non-normative, are acts of claim-making that have consequences on their court cases. When performed collectively, these acts can be disruptive, and produce affects of hope and resilience in the face of injustice. This research is based on an 18-months multi-sited court ethnography, in addition to several interviews and focus groups with lawyers in Egypt.