For any in-house lawyers at public companies who may have been using the Mayan calendar’s impending doom as an excuse to not plan for the new year, we have a quick cheat sheet to help get you back up to speed for 2013.

CorpCounsel.com, an ALM affiliate of the Daily Business Review. spoke with Gibson Dunn partner Amy Goodman about the firm’s “Key Year-End Considerations for Public Companies” alert, which offers some important issues to consider as 2012 comes to a close.