Jacobs et al v BL Development Corp et al?

French for 'and all'

Li [as the author's last name] and others is the English equivalent of Li et al. In the word by word translation, the conjunction 'et' means 'and'. The syllable 'al.' is an abbreviation for 'alii'....

Et al. is an abbreviation for the Latin phrase et alii, which means "and others". Since al. is an abbreviation, it is properly spelled with a period/full stop.

no, Et Al. is legal jargon for Etc. It is the abbreviation of the Latin phrase et alia meaning 'and others'

It is short for the Latin et alii ('and others'), which means "and others." For example, the phrase "IBM, Microsoft, HP, et al." means "IBM, Microsoft, HP and others" or "Carruthers et al."-...