Speech and lockpicking are useless trees because you can do everything without needing to put points in.
Personally, I drop three points into speech for the ability to sell anything nonstolen to anyone.
Man this thing was full of outdated stuff. Swoop Falcon I make(made?) avatars! Last updated 12-23-2008. Requests not unwelcome. Last request 01-12-2010.
Avatar by me.