Fortune Details How Star General Counsel Jeff Kindler Met His Downfall as Pfizer CEO

Trained as a trial lawyer, Jeffrey Bruce Kindler did so well as Pfizer Inc.’s general counsel that the company made him its CEO in 2006. But from there his career trajectory took a nosedive. A lengthy Fortune magazine article for the first time details what it describes as his downfall. A star Harvard Law School graduate who clerked for the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan before becoming a litigator at Washington, D.C.-based Williams & Connolly, Kindler followed a soaring career flight that took him to General Electric Co. and put him in the general counsel’s chair at McDonald’s Corp. before he landed at Pfizer as its…