The generalization of judicial practice is a necessary condition for its unity throughout the country, a mandatory basis for training future legal practitioners and improving the professional skills of representatives of all legal communities related to judicial activity, a necessary element of any scientific research. Purpose: to show that the role of the generalization of judicial practice in ensuring its unity is determined by the balance between the two undesirable extremes of imposing an external legal position on judges and the judges' complete disregard for the need for unity of judicial practice within the entire national legal system. Methods: structural-system analysis and synthesis, concrete sociological, comparative legal. Conclusion: the generalization of judicial practice makes it possible to bridge the gap between theory and practice in jurisprudence, to ensure the best development of both.