Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dustin Hoffman, Susan Estrich and Michael Ovitz paid tribute to the Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP partner and industry consigliere in front of a well-heeled crowd that included Fields’ widow Barbara Guggenheim, Leslie Moonves and Julie Chen Moonves, Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy, uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer and David Geffen among many others.

Individually, Katzenberg, Hoffman and Ovitz remembered a man who was clearly as much their friend as he was their lawyer.

Later, an emotional Hoffman spoke of Fields’ “fearless” nature — a quality that was repeated again and again this afternoon.

The Oscar winner called Fields “a man who I will always think of…forever in his prime.”.

The Mission: Impossible star spoke of meeting Fields for the first time through Hoffman during the making of Rain Man.

Declaring that he was “grateful” for Fields’ friendship, Cruise called the attorney “the most fascinating person I’ve ever met.” Cruise went on to add that Fields was “a person I knew I could always count on.”.

Also speaking today at the memorial emceed by Rich Eisen were Fields’ colleagues, his god-daughter Ali Hoffman, and other relatives including the attorney’s grandchildren Michael and Annabelle Fields.

But the remarks that clearly owned the day belonged to Fields’ widow Guggenheim

A natural-born bon vivant and raconteur as much as he was an attorney, Fields took pride in his literary endeavors as well as his litigation — a fact that only enhanced his reputation in high-profile circles when you consider that Fields kneecapped Disney and Michael Eisner to win a $250 million payout for former studio boss Katzenberg back in the late 1990s