This report contains the findings and recommendations of the Task Force on the Quality of Justice, Subcommittee on Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Judicial System concerning the following: 1) the effects of alternative dispute resolution on courts, litigants and the public; 2) what state entity should have the authority to adopt ethical standards governing retired judges, attorneys, and/or non-attorneys acting as arbitrators or mediators and what ethical standards should be adopted; and 3) whether the standards governing the referral of disputes by courts to private judges or attorneys be should changed.